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This is the success story of the onetime yakherder who, with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, walked to greater heights than any man before. Tenzing had won the chance to climb Everest by being the gamest and surest of the bellows-chested Sherpa tribesmen who lugged packs for sahibs scrambling up...
Into the Stands. For La Salle, winning was not as simple as the score suggested. All through the first period, while All-America Tom Gola and his teammates tried to get untracked, a tall (6 ft. 4 in., 185 lbs.), poker-faced playboy of a Mountaineer named Rodney ("Hot Rod...
Wit & Charm. Since Stalin's death, wrote Salisbury, Communist Russia has undergone a complete "new look" as drastic as any change in its whole history. In the face of domestic turmoil the new leaders of Russia have abandoned "Stalin's bludgeon for more graceful tactics." Russia is now...
A year ago De Gasperi's government was reelected, but with such a narrow majority that it was, in fact, defeated. Fatigued and discouraged, the old mountaineer could not weather another crisis and submitted his resignation; other, younger hands took over. He continued to be an elder statesman, but...
All Italy united to pay the old mountaineer homage. A special train, stopping at way stations where silent thousands gathered, took the body back to Rome. And there, this week, after high petitions by his beloved Church for heavenly grace, rich in earthly honors, Alcide de Gasperi would be laid...