Word: roche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's most distinguished soldiers, General Jacques Marie Roch Paris de Bollardière, paratroop veteran of Indo-China, last week asked to be relieved of command of the Algerian sector east of the Atlas Mountains. His reason he made plain in a letter to L'Express Editor Servan-Schreiber, who had served as a lieutenant in his command and now faces treason charges for his published indictment of army brutality to Arabs in Algeria. "I think that it was highly desirable," General de Bollardière wrote to Servan-Schreiber, to have called attention to "the frightful...
...North America, has been the goal of navigators since Explorer Henry Hudson perished trying to find it in 1611. Norway's famed Roald Amundsen made a trip across in the 47-ton yacht Gjöa in 1905; the 80-ton Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch (TIME, Aug. 2), commanded by Mountie Superintendent Henry A. Larsen, in 1942 became the first vessel to make the passage from west to east. But both Amundsen and Larsen sailed through Prince of Wales Strait, detouring around the broader, more direct but more northerly western exit: fog-shrouded, ice-choked McClure...
...fourth award went to Thomas Patrick Roch, Jr., of Milford, Conn, a senior at Yale. Roch intends to study Elizabethan Drama at Cambridge...
...canny Swiss, advised by Avalanche Expert André Roch, plan to take advantage of this previous British reconnaissance. They will also attack the problem with a new, semisecret weapon: an ingenious "third lung," designed at Zurich and perfected by Swiss watchmakers. Contrary to widespread opinion, there is nothing unsporting about using oxygen, though some British mountaineers might consider it "going soft." Heretofore, it has simply been considered impractical or impossible to haul the added burden. The new lightweight (22 Ibs.) Swiss lung, complete with plastic mouthpiece, is worked by the climber's own breath, which releases the precious oxygen...
...actual Swiss assault on Everest is expected to come in May. Avalanche Expert Roch, echoing the aspirations of mountaineers the world over, hopes to climb Everest for other reasons than Mallory's simple "because it's there." Alpinist Roch is also imaginatively challenged by other inaccessible Himalaya buttresses and spires. Says Roch: "The great attraction of the Himalayas lies not only in reaching a summit, but also in the simple contemplation of the wild flanks which probably never can be climbed...