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...That Bob Kennedy is a doll," wrote a Washington housewife last week as the Du Mont-televised labor rackets hearings came to a close (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Since the Senate's modern 18-day morality play began, Du Mont Broadcasting Corp. has been bombarded with 10,000 such letters and thousands of phone calls. Three people twitted Du Mont because Liberace had been shoved aside by Johnny Dio and Jimmy Hoffa; but in most bars across the Eastern Seaboard, tipplers clamored for the racket-busters over baseball. Even though she was seated a few yards behind the witness chair...
...blinding white grandeur of Mont Blanc, soaring above the blue lake at Chamonix, has drawn alpinists to France for centuries. Since men first scaled Western Europe's highest peak in 1786, some 20,000 people have successfully climbed to the top (15,781 ft.), and 65 have died on the way. But in all those years, mountaineers mastered only four routes to the peak itself. Attempted but never conquered was a possible fifth way, the Grand Pilastre, a 5,000-ft. perpendicular wall of gripless, smooth rock and slithery green ice that looms over empty space toward the summit...
...toughest. A Lombard laborer's son, he quit his steel mill job at 19 to become an Alpine guide and ski instructor. In 1954 he was the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2. The next year he performed a fine one-man climb up Mont Blanc's Aiguille du Dru, survived six days and five nights while clawing alone up sheer rock and ice. Widely hailed by the Italian press, he replied: "I was no conqueror. I was alone, and the mountain awed me too much. I was full of worries and fear...
...push, and the easiest, as they chipped ice steps and worked their way up, 400 ft. an hour. They had topped Grand Pilastre's crest by 10 a.m., climbed another eight hours over easier ground. At 6 p.m. they scrambled at last atop the great peak of Mont Blanc. They descended by an easier route. Next day, as European newspapers front-paged their feat, Walter Bonatti went skiing for exercise...
...show lacked the hippodrome theatrics of other-day TV hearings, it was a smoothly professional job, with Labor Reporter Clark Mollenhoff (Des Moines Register) and Du Mont's Matt Warren providing knowledgeable commentary. The show was marred only once: as Senator Kennedy illustrated shakedown techniques by playing tapped phone conversations involving extortion, Mollenhoff intruded with extraneous commentary...