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...wrote in 80 votes for Congressman John P. Saylor of far-off Pennsylvania. Reason for Pitkin County's pique: Aspinall favors but Saylor opposes the Frying Pan-Arkansas reclamation project, which would divert Colorado River water from Pitkin's side of the Rockies to the east slope...
...Italians struggled upwards. nailing down a rope-rail that stretched every inch of the way. Nights, they crouched in tents, often with half the canvas hanging over the slope for lack of level ground. K-2 gave no quarter, and after many days of heartbreak, they were driven back down to 25,000 feet. There the expedition reorganized, and Desio sent the fittest to try the assault again...
Neither adulation nor public office could keep Teddy from home. Whenever he could, he went back to the small fry, organizing games, obstacle races, camping and hunting expeditions and a wild slide down Cooper's Bluff, a steep, 200-ft. sand slope to a beach on the Sound. One reason the kids liked camping with him was explained by a delighted ten-year-old: "He never asked me to wash once...
Next day a helicopter picked George Argus off the lower slopes. Wood and Viereck had gone to McKinley Park headquarters for the "toughest part" of their ordeal: telling Thayer's widow of her husband's death. She asked that no more lives be risked to recover his body, buried on the avalanche-ridden slope. "He loved mountains, and that's where he'd want to stay," she said...
...Outsiders came to Kanab to prospect, and among them was Leroy Albert Wilson, 62, a brawler, an inventor, a Mormon excommunicated for defending polygamy and the leader of a strange band of men and women. Last week Wilson was found on his left side, lying on a sandy, sunny slope, a Geiger counter still clicking in his right hand. Six .45-caliber slugs had torn great holes in his back and head. He was the first man to be dry-gulched, as prospectors in the Old West so frequently died, in the 20th century rush for the new glamor metal...