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...twelve eager mountaineers who struck out last month to climb Mount McKinley, North America's highest peak, the adventure did not seem too formidable. Since the first assault on McKinley in 1903, only four climbers had died on its slopes, while more than 100 people have attained the summit. Thanks in part to the National Park Service, which firmly winnows some 300 applications a year, at least half a dozen expeditions annually make a safe and often successful try to ascend Denali-the Great One-as Yukon Indians call the mountain...
...bright conversation. His mother held an A.B. from Wellesley and an M.A. from Radcliffe, his father an A.B. from Amherst and a law degree from Harvard. Both were Phi Beta Kappa freethinkers-and poles apart in their thinking, especially in politics. Father was what an acquaintance calls "a crustacean McKinley Republican," Mother "a Cambridge liberal Democrat." They were divorced when Kingman was six and his mother married a Harvard music professor, Pianist-Composer Edward Ballantine. Their Cambridge home, with its two grand pianos, was a setting...
...Everett McKinley Dirksen, LL.D., U.S. Senator, Illinois. Peerless orator, gifted political leader, American statesman...
Lord's presence even when he missed the ball gave senior southpaw Jim McKinley a Candlish a comfortable cushion for most of the game. McCandlish surrendered seven hits, walked seven and struck out eight, befuddling Holy Cross with his assortment of junk...
Such logic is not new, and it is not stifling dissent now any more than it did in the past. Rusk's words could have been used by President McKinley during the so-called Philippine Insurrection at the turn of the century, when 70,000 U.S. troops sought to "Christianize" Aguinaldo's guerrillas, and safeguard U.S.-Asian commerce in the process. Home-front critics of that war included Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, and ex-Presidents Harrison and Cleveland. A Negro editor called it "a sinful extravagance to waste our civilizing influence upon the unappreciative Filipinos when...