Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billings, Mont...
High above the French village of Chamonix towers 15,781-ft. Mont Blanc, a permanent challenge to mountain climbers. Nearby is the even more difficult and dangerous crag, Aiguille du Fou (Fool's Needle), which only the more experienced mountaineers attempt. Last week Mont Blanc delivered up the bodies of four Spanish Alpinists who had disdained guides and paid with their lives. Two other lone climbers started up the rocky crag of Fool's Needle...
Washington Exclusive (Sun. 7:30 p.m., Du Mont). Moderator Frank Mc-Naughton and a panel of ex-Congressmen discuss the news...
...father owned and operated the best hotel and saloon in Butte, Mont., and Leslie Bechtel grew up there. "I think I could play poker before I could read or write." Bechtel went to school with copper miners' children who were sent down into the pits when they were 14. Growing up, he decided to be a lawyer and do something about such social injustice...
...bestsellers. Yet few present-day writers seem interested in following the old Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride Out the Storm, he again pits hard men against the pitiless sea and lets human nature take its willful course...