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...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...
...Honor of France. Marcel Schneider of Paris' highbrow daily Combat, who had already heard the mass in Paris' church of St.-Roch, where Father Martin's choir first performed it, found it "even more beautiful and imposing . . . Perhaps the foreign visitors . . . were able to feel what the Kingdom of France once meant." The Nouvelles Litteraires' Jean Wenger found the mass "marked with the seal of the 17th century, so fertile in its greatness." All in all, France felt proud of a glorious relic of its past-until the bubble burst, two weeks later. The mass, Musicologist...
...grain, charged them both with involuntary homicide. In Pont-Saint-Esprit, the toll of illness passed 200; four had died, 28 were still on the critical list. France considered itself lucky: all the contaminated grain seemed to have gone into that one bag of flour delivered to Baker Roch Briand...