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In Portland, Ore., William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice and sentimental mountaineer, announced his summer plans: a 400-mile hike along the Tibetan border in the Himalayas. "It will be a pack trip," said Douglas, "but I'll probably be walking most of the way. Those porters up there...
Early last October 3,000 mountaineer soldiers, well-equipped by Tibetan standards with castoff British battle gear, held the vital frontier fortress of Chamdo, 370 miles east of Tibet's capital, Lhasa. They were preparing for an orthodox daylight attack by the invading Red Chinese.
TIME, Sept. 4, in its article on "Little Siberia," makes a pardonable mistranslation of Bergfrauen as "mountain women," since the German language can at times be untranslatable. The word Berg, although it means mountain when it stands alone, means mine when it precedes another noun; e.g., Bergwerk-mine, Bergakademie-mining...
To express his gratitude for Marshall Plan aid, a Cretan mountaineer named Estakios Protopapadakis sent a present to Harry Truman: a silky-haired, two-year-old mountain goat named Kri Kri. "Kri Kri doesn't smell too strong," Protopapadakis assured the President, "and he won't butt you...
Last week the John Hay Whitney Foundation announced the award of their first 42 fellowships (averaging $2,024 each). Among the winners: Milton Bee Wise, 20, a Kentucky mountaineer who will study animal husbandry at North Carolina State, take his knowledge back to fellow farmers at home; Delfino Varela, 23...