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...guiding footsore tourists up the steep slopes of 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier; in all, they scaled Rainier something like 70 times. Three years ago, Jim and Lou were members of an ill-fated expedition that got stranded for four days on Alaska's 20,320-ft. Mount McKinley when one of the climbers slipped and pulled the others (who were roped to him) down a steep slope; only the Whittakers' superb physical condition and mountaineering skill pulled them through. "Mountain climbing brings out the best in a person," Jim Whittaker insisted. "It forces...
Somewhat obscured by the competition, the Republicans held their Lincoln Day gatherings to honor the party's first winning presidential candidate. Much of what the speakers said was as predictable as what Democrats say at Jefferson-Jackson dinners. At Springfield, Ill., the voice of Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen summoned the party to "plow the long, hard furrow through which the Republican Party came to power and saved the Union in grave hours." Republican National Chairman William Miller thundered that the G.O.P. "must win in '64, or there won't be a country worth saving...
...Senate, Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen promised a personal investigation, with the blessing of the Republican Policy Committee. "Cuba is very much unfinished business," he said. Arizona's Barry Goldwater demanded an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee, charged Bobby Kennedy and the Administration with attempts at "the rewriting of history." Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, retorted that he saw no useful purpose in "relaundering this linen-though I'll confess it has never seemed very clean...
...wartime assembly lines. By war's end, the school had proved so successful that Northrop turned it into a subsidiary company with the sole function of educating technicians for the entire aircraft industry. By 1947, the two-year school was rolling in subsidized G.I. Bill students. McKinley, sensing an opportunity to make the school into a junior Caltech, bought it from Northrop and turned it by 1960 into a tax-exempt institution valued...
Loyal & Dependable. Today, Board Chairman McKinley and President Herbert W. Hartley run a school jammed to capacity with 1,700 students (one of them a girl). More than 75% are non-Californians, drawn from the 49 other states and 40 foreign countries. Some aim for a two-year technological diploma, but nearly all end up working for a full B.S. degree in engineering. Four-fifths finish in three years, getting along on vacations of four weeks a year. Says McKinley: "We teach these boys what it is to do eight hours of work, to be loyal to an employer...