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The Germans are set to wipe out the null British garrison on the Greek isle of Kheros. The Germans control the air by day and the British the sea by night. Unless the British can silence a German battery on the neighboring isle of Navarone, nothing can save the Kheros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Derring-Documentary | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Small Satisfaction. Pitt's potential heroes faded like shooting stars. Hobbled by a bad leg, Left End Joe Walton did next to nothing. Tough Tackle Bob Pollock managed a jarring shot at Mountaineer Fullback Krutko, forced him to fumble and set up the first Pitt score. For the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Season Opens | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

The tedious life on her husband's sheep ranch in New Zealand's Eglinton Valley gave Mrs. Ruth Chartres a wistful eye for the peaks that towered into the clear air high above her home. She set her heart on mastering Mount Cook, New Zealand's tallest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cloud Piercer | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Died. Louis Lachenal, 35, French mountaineer who with Maurice Herzog in 1950 scaled the 26,493-ft. Himalayan peak, Annapurna, and had to have his toes amputated; after a fall into a 120-ft. crevasse while skiing on Mont Blanc.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

In the election, Happy's Republican opponent, Judge Edwin R. Denney, 51, can hardly hope to match Chandler for winsomeness. A solid (6 ft. 2 in., 225 lbs.), solemn, soft-spoken mountaineer, he plans a campaign that will "stress honesty, frugality, economy and integrity in government." But with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Comeback | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

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