Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summertime the queen of the Alps, 15,781-ft. Mont Blanc, puts only minor difficulties in the path of those who would woo and conquer her. Each year in the climbing season some 75,000 mountaineers flock to the resort town of Chamonix to have a try at scaling her heights, and most of them succeed. But in the winter, when her steep slopes are swept by gales often reaching 100 miles an hour and the temperature drops below zero, the icy-hearted mountain becomes a fickle and merciless termagant. Few, even among expert mountain climbers, care to risk...
Last month a 23-year-old Parisian climbed to the summit of Mont Blanc all alone. Inspired by his success, two other ambitious young mountaineers, Parisian Jean Vincendon, 23, and Belgian François Henry, 22, decided to have a try at its challenging heights. They set out early in the morning of Dec. 22. The sky was blue and the air was warm, the kind of weather when skiers down below wish for snow. Four days later the skiers had their snow. Up above, the Alpine peaks were shrouded with ominous evidence of storm and fury. Torn between heartache...
...GLORY OF ROMANESQUE ART (351 pp.; Vanguard; $15). In the minds of many visitors to France, what lingers longest is the richness of its Romanesque architecture, the combination of religiosity and dedicated workmanship that lives in Chartres, at Mont St.-Michel, in Vezelay. These 271 photographs are rich evidence of the legacy left by the great architects and sculptors of 11th and 12th century France, the marriage of mass and grace, of glory to God and man's determination to create for posterity...
...Philadelphia, the same day, a lanky, 22-year-old pianist named Philippe Entre-mont had his own triumph. When he auditioned for the Philadelphia Orchestra two years ago. Conductor Eugene Ormandy called him "one of the great younger pianists of our day." hired him on the spot. Last week Entremont made his Philadelphia debut-with a spiky-rhythmed modern concerto by France's Andre Jolivet, and Rachmaninoff's caramel-flavored...
COLOR TV will come close to meeting black-and-white price levels next year, predicts Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories. Du Mont has signed royalty contract to make Lawrence color tube developed by Chromatic Television Laboratories (50% owned by Paramount Pictures), plans to bring it out at factory price of less than $50, some 30% cheaper than current R.C.A. tube. New tube, says Du Mont, will simplify color sets, cut retail prices to around $340 for 22-in. color set v. $495 for cheapest 21-in. color set currently on market, and about $200 for comparable black-and-white model...