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...Lieut. Zebulon Montgomery Pike, leading an expedition through Louisiana Territory, saw in the distance a mountain like "a small blue cloud" rising abruptly from the plains. Pike led three cheers for what he thought were the "Mexican Mountains," and set out a few days later toward the snow-covered summit. Poorly provisioned and clothed, his party was forced to turn back by a roaring blizzard. Pike predicted that the summit would never be reached by man. But 14 years later it was scaled (by someone else); in 1835 it was recorded on a map as Pikes Peak...
...nominate the rest of the AEC team for staggered terms: Sumner Pike, four years; Lewis Strauss, three; William Waymack, two; Robert Bacher...
...fishermen rushed out on frozen White Bear Lake near St. Paul, chopped holes in 28-inch ice and dropped in their bait. While 8,000 spectators watched (see cut), they fished for two hours. The winner, John Einum, got an outboard motor for catching a 5¼-lb. walleyed pike...
Holy Cross will journey down the pike to Cambridge today to engage in a bitter athletic joust with Harvard. They will be very serious minded young men who will carry the Royal Purple onto the Stadium Lawn, and two football games will be uppermost in their minds...
...knew some of the things that atomic science offers to humanity: new medical advances, a deeper understanding of biology, perhaps unlimited energy to do the world's heavy work. But it may be a very long time before science can get busy on such matters. Commissioner Sumner T. Pike of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission did not sound very encouraging about it. Peaceful applications of nuclear science, he said, have "an A-2 priority." They will continue to have a secondary rating until there is international agreement on control of atomic activities. For the present, "our principal...