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Among the mountain climbers who swarm into Nepal each year to see what heights they may surmount, there is one rule of thumb about the hiring of native porters. For climbs under 18,000 ft., the mountaineers usually pick their men from among the 5,000 Sherpa families living in the Nepalese area of Solo Khumbu. But for high-altitude work, the most able Sherpas are those who live in Darjeeling, across the border in India. Most of these men come from families who emigrated from Nepal in 1921 and got their rugged training in the Indian and Tibetan Himalayas...
...unfamiliar highways of the upper air for years, commercial pilots will probably not find it worthwhile to try for this maximum joyride. The stream's twisting center is hard to follow, and it often takes the airplane far from its course. Most pilots will be content to pick up 50 to 100 miles of free speed by flying in the stream's vicinity...
...general direction of the jet stream is from west to east; jetliners flying westward will usually pick their courses and altitudes to avoid it. But sometimes the jet stream or the current associated with it loops into a westerly direction. When the charts reveal such a shift, an alert pilot might get a jet stream assist both coming and going...
...concurrent cancer, the diagnostician inserts a sigmoidoscope-a metal tube, 10 in. long, with a light at the end-through the rectum and examines the lower sigmoid colon visually. Now being refined are more elaborate techniques for washing out the colon, then flushing it with a solution to pick up stray cancer cells which can be identified on a Papanicolaou smear under the microscope...
...Industrial spending on new plants and equipment began to turn up, said the Commerce Department, but new plant expenditures for the third and fourth quarters will be a little less than expected, will pick up only about 2% in the first quarter...