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...events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones. The other climber decides to lower his injured partner to safety, 300 feet of rope at a time, until he accidentally lowers him over a precipice. Knowing that soon both of them would tumble to their deaths, he makes a critical decision and cuts the cord...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Happening | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...having him gargle with Flit." A male and a female mosquito stand before a minister mosquito, with a scowling fourth figure holding the spray at the groom: "The Flit Gun Wedding." A bug stands in front of the business end of the spray gun, a rope attached to the pump: "The suicide." In a tribute to his ancestors, Geisel did one ad in semi-German: "Quick Heinrich, Das Flit" (Should it be "Raus"?) The campaign expanded to book form, with a collection of the published ads, and a promotional movie, produced by Warner Bros. It showed a whale being menacing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Seuss on First | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

Finally, while holding onto the ledge with his cane, Prats cut the rope attaching the gong to the flagpole with his knife...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Adams House Gong Seized and Returned | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

...events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones. The other climber decides to lower his injured partner to safety, 300 feet of rope at a time, until he accidentally lowers him over a precipice. Knowing that soon both of them would tumble to their deaths, he makes a critical decision and cuts the cord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

...events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones. The other climber decides to lower his injured partner to safety, 300 feet of rope at a time, until he accidentally lowers him over a precipice. Knowing that soon both of them would tumble to their deaths, he makes a critical decision and cuts the cord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 2/26/2004 | See Source »

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