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Communications breakthroughs increased the impression that Everest was accessible to nearly anyone. Climbers call home from the summit using satellite phones. They send E-mail. Over the past two months, socialite-alpinist Sandy Hill Pittman has been describing her ascent with Fischer's group on the Internet and throwing in remarks about books and recipes. One of her cyber correspondents inquired as to whether there were "any permanent markers at the summit. Flags, or plaques, or anything like that? A gift shop, perhaps?" Pittman didn't tell her new friend that the most enduring mementos on Everest's higher reaches...
Michelle Surette, 49, of Medford, formerly Michelle Pittman, received a suspended sentence of 2 and 1/2 years in prison and is required to perform 500 hours of community service and to make a partial restitution, according to the court documents...
...EDITOR" Sandy (Mrs. Bob) Pittman...
...Lesson Before Dying is, like Ernest Gaines' best-known novel, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, set in rural Louisiana. The year is 1948, and the particulars have a familiar ring. A young, black male is convicted of murder and sentenced to death on inconclusive evidence. The youth, called Jefferson, had the bad luck to be in a white man's store at the same time that two acquaintances attempted a robbery. They shoot the owner, but not before he fires effectively at them. Left with three dead men on the floor, Jefferson panics and helps himself to a bottle...
...some ways the bruised and bruising Turner was a patient perfectly suited to Dr. Pittman's specialty. Although Pittman will not discuss Turner's case specifically, he says, "What I do is help men who don't have a very good image of masculinity because of a failure in their relationship with their father" learn to have "a partnership with a woman they can see as their equal." Turner approached counseling with the same ferocious concentration on results that made it possible for him, say, to start a second CNN channel, Headline News, in 90 days in 1981. He asked...