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...final day, Hogan appeared on the first tee bundled up in two sweaters and feeling the touch of flu. "Better have an oxygen tent ready on the 18th; I'll need it," he warned an official. A Scots paper headlined: HOGAN FALTERS. Instead of faltering, Ben began gunning out 300-yd. drives in place of his usual, careful 250-yarders. Where his putts had been falling short, Ben changed style and stroked harder. His third-round 70 left him in a tie for the lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Wee Ice Mon | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Dawn on May 29 made the Himalayas glow. Tenzing saw Thyangboche Monastery, 16,000 ft. below. At 6:30 they thawed out their boots and buckled on all that remained of the precious oxygen. The summit was hidden in cloud, but they knew it lay ahead and above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Conquest of Everest | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...Appeasement. But the Russians could hardly execute or jail 18 million East Germans. Their best bet was to conciliate where they could, in hopes that the hatred and yearnings which still smoldered beneath the surface might die out for lack of political oxygen. In daily spurts of breast-pounding and backtracking, Premier Grotewohl, Walter Ulbricht the No. 1 Red, and their henchmen carried out orders to ease policies which had brought East German workers and peasants to the pitch of revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Memory of June 17 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...sheer. Ice boots were changed for high-altitude footwear soled with microcellular rubber (to keep out - 50° cold). Goggles protected the men from snow blindness; padded smocks enclosed their bodies. One by one, Hunt and Hillary, Bourdillon and Evans, Noyce, Wilson and Tenzing, put on their oxygen masks and learned to sleep in them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Conquest of Everest | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...thin that the pilots had to take in their oxygen under pressure to get it into their lungs. Working 90-odd controls with the light-fingered touch of master watchmakers, the pilots glanced now & then at the dozens of dials and flashing instrument lights that might warn of trouble, while they searched the sky for MIGs. Suddenly, from far below, came a glint of silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Cats of MIG Alley | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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