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...classic feat: two men against the unforgiving granite face of a mountain. From a beginning without fanfare, through a frustrating, storm-slowed ascent to a triumphant end, the assault on the Wall of the Early Morning Light -the sheerest approach to the summit of Yosemite's El Capitan Peak-was an atavism. For those who watched, it was like all high adventure, an escape from the ambiguities of ordinary life where seldom are there clean, finite beginnings, middles and ends to anything, and unalloyed success is rarer still...
...four years he will be pushing 60 and the governor's chair may seem the limit for a man of that age, given the trend of present politics. Surely that has occurred to Roosevelt. The rest is sheerest speculation...
Actresses have always counted their physical charms as attributes, but how much of them they revealed has varied vastly with the times. In the forgotten '20s, bosoms were sometimes bared in flickering film orgies; in the '30s, Norma Shearer in the sheerest of slips was enough to make temperatures simmer. World War II G.I.s strained at the sight of Lana Turner in a sweater. Then came Marilyn Monroe's enamel-textured calendar shot and Brigitte Bardict's nudity-with-towel, and most barriers were down...
...mass of Chinese power and the Grand Design of the Chinese leaders. At some crucial point Johnson will have to say Yes or No to a design of our own for world policy. To say, as he did, that every foreign policy problem carries its separate answer, is the sheerest and wrongest fragmenting of the overarching question of our time...
...sole Progressive voice in the Assembly belongs to Economist Helen Suzman, 43, the wife of a Johannesburg heart specialist and mother of two grown daughters. A onetime United Party M.P. from suburban Johannesburg's sheerest silk stocking constituency. Politician Suzman broke away from the U.P. in 1959, will be the only member of the Assembly not committed to apartheid. "The difficulties of being alone in Parliament will be enormous," she says. "I won't even be able to move amendments as I shall have no seconder, but I shall do my best." She adds, perhaps too hopefully...