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...novice hiker is leg weary as you near the cottonwood trees of the first oasis, 3,000 ft. below the rim. It's much hotter here than at the trailhead, and you flop down in the shade and briefly commune with Kit Carson and Charles Lindbergh and Sir Edmund Hillary and wonder, "Can I make it back up?" The answer is yes. Absolutely yes. Yes, sir...
...DIED. SIR MARCUS OLIPHANT, 98, nuclear physicist and a developer of the atom bomb; in Canberra, Australia. A native Australian, Oliphant discovered new forms of hydrogen and helium at Cambridge University's Cavendish Lab and later joined the Manhattan Project. Horrified by the bombs' effects, he called for peaceful uses of nuclear energy and was South Australian governor for five years...
...SIR HAIRY LEGS
Fortunately for it, and for all central London, that person was the director of the Tate Gallery, Sir Nicholas Serota...
...DIED. SIR JOHN GIELGUD, 96, towering Shakespearean actor; in Buckinghamshire, England. (See Appreciation, page...