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...birds were singing, the trees were budding, and the floriated rhetoric of Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, 71, was in full bloom. "It is as sprightly as the daffodil, as colorful as the rose, as resolute as the zinnia, as delicate as the carnation, as aggressive as the petunia, as ubiquitous as the violet and as stately as the snapdragon," hymned Evin his Hammond Organ voice. "It beguiles the senses and ennobles the spirit of man." With that he continued his perennial crusade by presenting to the Senate his annual resolution asking that the marigold be designated...
Climbers have been scaling Mount McKinley ever since 1913, but North America's tallest peak is still one of the most forbidding mountains in the world. From the floor of the Susitna River valley, 1,500 ft. above sea level, the mountain sweeps to 20,320 ft. above central Alaska in a single cascade of rock and ice. In summer, McKinley is merely inhospitable; in winter, it is deadly. For one thing, it is among the coldest places on earth. Actual temperatures range to as low as-100°. Until Feb. 28, no one had climbed Mount McKinley...
...ordeal began on Jan. 30, when a party of eight climbers headed by Colorado's Gregg Blomberg, 25, landed by airplane on Kahiltna Glacier, 7,250 ft. up McKinley's west slope. Less than 24 hours later, France's Jacques Batkin, who was bringing supplies to the base camp at 7,600 ft., plunged 50 ft. to his death in a crevasse hidden by snow and ice. Dr. George Wichman, an orthopedic surgeon and amateur mountaineer from Anchorage, Alaska, saw him fall. "One minute Jacques was there," recalls Wichman. "He was hauling his load, chest thrown...
...Building, Chicago, Ill. 60611). Consulting editor for the series is Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History at Harvard. The second volume, The Heartland, written by TIME Associate Editor Robert McLaughlin, covers Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. It will be published in March, and Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, for one, is already excited about...
...between the sound track from The Wild Angels and Simon and Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. He has made appearances on the Johnny Carson Show and Hollywood Palace, and his name will soon join Clem Kadiddlehopper's on the Red Skelton Show. At 71, Everett McKinley Dirksen, minority leader of the U.S. Senate, has made the scene...