Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mute, snow-shouldered peaks of Mount McKinley, the continent's highest mountain, four climbers pecked perilously downward from the 20,320-ft. summit in the white cold of an Alaskan night. Bound to one another by lengths of rope and sinews of courage, they edged along toward the 18,200-ft. level on the sharp west buttress-and then one slipped. As the first fell, and then the second, the third and the fourth, one of them swung his ax into the stubborn ice, but it did not hold. The four fell about 400 ft. and then rolled...
...Glacier. While Air Force planes dropped stoves, oxygen, tents, rope and food, military helicopters tried to land on the upper slopes, turned back again and again because of gusty winds. From Talkeetna came Don Sheldon, 37, one of Alaska's great bush pilots. Airlifting rescuers, Sheldon shuttled dozens of men to a base camp at 10,200 ft., where they began their careful climb. When Crews reported that Mrs. Bading's condition was worsening, Sheldon gunned his Piper Super Cub to an uphill landing on a glacier at 14,500 ft., waited as Crews and another member...
...with necessary furniture, a crucifix and a certificate naming him an honorary Fairfield County deputy sheriff, Patterson gets up at 6 a.m. He puts on khaki pants a leather jacket, paratrooper boots and a cream-colored cap, runs from three to five miles before breakfast. He chops wood, skips rope, works for hours on the bags. In the dance-floor ring, he takes out his frustrations on his sparring partners, particularly a pug named Ed Bunyan."He's broke my nose and ribs already," says Bunyan. "Every time I go in there, I say to myself, 'This...
Every living cell contains a minuscule amount of an extraordinary substance called DNA (for deoxyribonucleic acid) that carries in it the traits of heredity. When its home cell begins to divide, the DNA performs wondrously: its complicated molecules, ordinarily like two ropes twisted together, untwist and separate. Each rope attracts bits and pieces from fluid around it and forms a new double helix like the original one. Apportioned between the halves of the dividing cells, the duplicated DNA molecules determine whether the new individuals will be men or muskrats, pine trees or pineapples. The hereditary characteristics of the next human...
Waiting for Bumps. Saying that CAT surrounds the jet stream does not help detect it. The stream is capricious, whipping up and down and from side to side like a shaken rope. The only way at present to find belts of CAT is to fly an airplane through a region where it may be -and wait for the bumps to begin. The Weather Bureau intends to do this if it can get the money to fly its elaborately instrumented hurricane-hunter planes during hurricane-free seasons. Such a course of flying may suggest ways to warn pilots of CAT ahead...