Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mountaineering veterans of some of the toughest climbs of the Alps, the Rockies and the Himalayas are currently flocking to Peru, drawn by the country's cluster of virgin (i.e., unclimbed) peaks ranging up to 20,000 ft. or more. In recent months, two major expeditions have been preparing assaults on the spectacular snowcrest of Salcantay, 20,551 ft. above sea level. One, an American-French group, has been reconnoitering the peak in an airplane; the other, a Swedish-Italian group, has been warming up by scaling other Peruvian slopes...
...contributions are comparatively dour, and less deft, but their directness and monumentality may help earn him a place in history next to the two great masters of American painting, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Max Gubler's 42 paintings turn the Swiss pavilion into a sunlit peak, and assure the reputation of a hitherto little-known artist. "Talent and ideas," says Gubler, "are nothing. The job is to paint what you have seen and what you feel in the only way those things can be expressed." That timeless credo has no truck with fashion...
Last week there was another note of joy. The Dow-Jones industrial average surged forward to 276.76, a shade higher than the peak of last September and the best level since April...
...story building at 540 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, King and his two assistants, Frank S. Waterman and Charles A. Adams Jr., supervise the handling of about as much mail in a day as the average person receives in a lifetime. The daily average is 32,000 letters. Peak load during the past year: 84,694 pieces of mail, last...
Encouraged by all this, plus Eisenhower's victory, the stock market kept rising steadily. This week the Dow-Jones industrial average hit 275.08, only a shade below the bull-market peak...