Word: peake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blinding white grandeur of Mont Blanc, soaring above the blue lake at Chamonix, has drawn alpinists to France for centuries. Since men first scaled Western Europe's highest peak in 1786, some 20,000 people have successfully climbed to the top (15,781 ft.), and 65 have died on the way. But in all those years, mountaineers mastered only four routes to the peak itself. Attempted but never conquered was a possible fifth way, the Grand Pilastre, a 5,000-ft. perpendicular wall of gripless, smooth rock and slithery green ice that looms over empty space toward the summit...
...third big push, and the easiest, as they chipped ice steps and worked their way up, 400 ft. an hour. They had topped Grand Pilastre's crest by 10 a.m., climbed another eight hours over easier ground. At 6 p.m. they scrambled at last atop the great peak of Mont Blanc. They descended by an easier route. Next day, as European newspapers front-paged their feat, Walter Bonatti went skiing for exercise...
...deficits more than $1,000,000) L'Unità's financial crisis was brought on by sharp cutbacks in its subsidies from Moscow and from the financially-pressed Italian Communist Party. But its most serious problem is shriveling circulation, now well below 300,000 from a 1953 peak of 1,574,000. So low has stodgy, 33-year-old L'Unità sunk in the eyes of its own staffers that meetings intended to rally support for a "stronger, better" paper in Turin and Genoa last week broke up amid angry attacks on the party bosses...
Pioneers & Prices. If Bell & Howell's new camera fulfills the forecasts, the company will reach a peak that Chicago Movie Projectionist Donald H. Bell and Camera Repairman Albert S. Howell never dreamed of when they founded the company 50 years ago. Starting out with a $5,000 investment, they pioneered the movie industry's first reliable cameras and projectors, boasted that they "took the flick out of the flickers." Partner Bell sold out in 1921. Howell remained to advise a brisk new management, headed by the late J. H. McNabb, which made a stab at the amateur market...
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac immediately took the world by greater storm than any other play in the history of the theatre. And today it still easily holds its position as the towering peak of 19th-century French drama...