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Third Man on the Mountain (Buena Vista) may well become a children's classic of the screen, a sort of Tom Sawyer in the Alps. Based on James Ramsey Ullman's Banner in the Sky, the film describes the Alpine adventures of a teen-aged Swiss village boy...
But such official statements were too grand for so sentimental an occasion. One of the U.S. arrivals was so taken with emotion that he could not answer questions at customs, and soon the customs inspector was weeping too. One Lebanese mountaineer had carefully rehearsed one English phrase of greeting, boomed...
The Chinese Communist government notified New Zealand Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest, that owing to unexplained "inadequate conditions,'' he would not be allowed back in Tibet for another go at the great peak.
Died. John ("General") Sailing, 112, one of the two surviving veterans of the Civil War, sometime railroader, farmer, logger, horse trader and moonshiner, who served three years as a Confederate private, mainly digging saltpeter for gunpowder in the hills near his lifelong home in Slant, Va.; of pneumonia; at a...
Mountaineer Ullman has stuck to the few known facts of Rimbaud's story, has imagined the unknown credibly enough. But in the end, he has after all unearthed only Claude Morel. Arthur Rimbaud and his bellyful of bitter dead still lie buried.