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From the Grand Plateau (12,880 ft), the climber can choose the path to the right or the sharper but less windswept one to the left. The thrills are much the same either way. At the top, the Alpinist may experience what one veteran climber called "the feeling of release and mystic union upon reaching the goal." All climbers do not attain that experience. Last month, eight climbers were caught in a blizzard near the top and froze to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Men y. Mountains | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...individual services, the Associated Press "does a workmanlike job," but should have a "sharper approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Summary of the News | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Scrambling to his feet, the bull, wavering neither to left nor right, charged head-on for the jeep that had goaded him. As the jeep pulled back, he saw a picador with a sharper lance astride a well-padded horse nearby and whirled to charge the horse. The riders of the jeep were quick to approve. Above the young bull's number in a thick registry book, a rider initialed in red ink the letters B.P. (for Bravo Pronto). That meant that two years later, on some Sunday afternoon, in some jam-packed arena in Latin America, the fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Home of the Brave | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Although Charlie de Bretteville grew up surrounded by Spreckelses (his aunt married the late Adolph B. Spreckels, Claus's son), he picked up none of their playboy antics. A sharp dresser with an even sharper golf game (the low 70s), De Bretteville was a varsity swimmer and golfer at Stanford, spent a year at the Harvard Business

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Sugar Plum | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...Farben empire, a mainstay of the Nazi war machine. General Lucius Clay, then Military Governor of Germany, retorted that any further break-up of German enterprises "would be a political and not a security measure." His staff, which got much of the blame from the committee, was even sharper. Sneered his economic adviser Lawrence Wilkinson: the Ferguson report was "low comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARTELS: On the Block | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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