Word: peake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve eager mountaineers who struck out last month to climb Mount McKinley, North America's highest peak, the adventure did not seem too formidable. Since the first assault on McKinley in 1903, only four climbers had died on its slopes, while more than 100 people have attained the summit. Thanks in part to the National Park Service, which firmly winnows some 300 applications a year, at least half a dozen expeditions annually make a safe and often successful try to ascend Denali-the Great One-as Yukon Indians call the mountain...
Mindful of McKinley's menace, Expedition Leader Joseph F. Wilcox, 24, encamped his dozen climbers 18,000 ft. high between McKinley's north and south peaks. After Wilcox and his assault team scaled the peak, he set out with four weary companions on the long trek down. Seven others, including the expedition's strongest mountaineers, opted to assault the pinnacle...
John Fuller. On their trip, Simon says, the Hills became increasingly concerned about the reception they might receive at restaurants and gas stations along their route: Betty is white, Barney a Negro. Their tension and fear reached a peak when they saw a glowing UFO from the highway. The sighting, Simon theorizes, served as a "day stimulus" for subsequent nightmares and wish-fulfillment fantasies. Betty, who is childless, described an obviously Freudian encounter with a humanoid who examined her and inserted a six-inch needle into her navel, explaining that it was a pregnancy test. Barney, who generally considers...
...money for a public utility. Long among the most depressed of the blue chips, A.T. & T. shares had suffered another $2 billion in paper losses early this month after the FCC ruling, and even at week's end remained nearly a third, or $ 11 billion, below their 1964 peak...
...most widely accepted gauge of stock performance, has lagged far behind every broader index. At week's end, the D.J. industrial average had risen 16% so far this year, but still remained well below its alltime high of 995.15 on Feb. 9, 1966. In reaching its new peak, the New York Stock Exchange index has gained 22% this year. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index comes out be tween these two; it has risen 18%, to $94.04-within a whisker of its $94.58 record set last May 8. Over-the-counter stocks, as measured by the National Quotation...