Word: razors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beautiful Thyangboche was where they made their First Base Camp. Towering above was the Everest trinity: Lhotse (27,890) and Nuptse (25,680), joined by a razor edge; beyond, Everest itself, plumed in a wisp of vapor that streams from the summit at 29,002 ft. The three giants together enclose a vast glacial basin known as the Western Cwm (a Welsh word that rhymes with tomb). This was the key to the climb...
...Sidney Weil, 52, treasurer and general manager of American Safety Razor Corp., second largest manufacturer of safety razors and blades (first: Gillette), became president, replacing J. B. de Mesquita, who becomes chairman of the executive committee. Weil joined American Safety Razor in 1926 as export manager, and by 1943 was vice president and sales director. He stepped up to executive vice president and director...
...January by Rita Hay worth) were winding up a three-week holiday at his Irish "hiding place"-a 700-acre stud farm outside the tiny village of Kilcullen. Newsmen, dutifully noting the first morning that a maid was pulling the curtains in Gene's room while an electric razor buzzed four windows away, kept close watch but could report nothing more than a circumspect round of sightseeing through the countryside, hand-holding beside a lake, a visit to Dublin's Royal Theater and the prince's victory (his 102nd win as a jockey) in the last race...
...fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world. Last week, nonetheless-largely because TV audiences will stand for anything billed as a prize fight-the sturdy old Negro was put into the ring with Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano, 28. It was a triumph neither for the sponsor (Gillette Safety Razor Co.), for the autocratic matchmakers (International Boxing Club), nor for the heavy-footed contestants...
...record of another sort, the TV sponsors, Gillette Safety Razor Co., paid over $300,000 (to promoters and the network), for what turned out to be just a couple of quick commercials...