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...camp, he stripped his plane of a door, a 28-lb. battery, a 12-lb. radio and some cushions, so that his lightened plane could accommodate a passenger. He popped an oxygen tube into his mouth and took off. Ten minutes later he landed on the upper slope at 17,200 ft., scooped up a seriously injured John Day, 51, ferried him down to the 10,200-ft. station, where Bush Pilot Sheldon was waiting to take Day to the hospital...
...prey was Captain Manuel Beatón, one of the growing number of officers in Castro's army who think that Communists have perverted and appropriated Castro's revolution. Beatón popped up on the Sierra's southern slope a fortnight ago, leading a band of 60 to 80 men. He reached an army garrison, captured arms...
...gate course in a blazing time of 54 sec. that put her first and left her U.S. rival dangling in seventh place. Nor did Anne let up on the second course, finishing in 55.6 sec. Hell-bent to save her glory, Penny fell and bumped far down the slope on the seat of her pants. Penny ended up a dejected 33rd, and cool Anne Heggtveit was F.I.S. champion. "If I could have stood up, I would have been world champion," shrugged Penny. "But I couldn't stand up." Only consolation: the U.S.'s Betsy Snite finished...
South Egremont (Jug End Barn)--6-12, 2 powder, good slope...
...revered clay," the dead are merely "out of sight." Here 1,500,000 visitors a year wander, secure in the knowledge that they can avoid seeing a tombstone; graves, marked only with bronze plaques set level with the ground, are clustered in such consoling sites as Sunrise Slope, Slumberland, Resthaven, Sweet Memories, Everlasting Love. Infants are buried in Babyland, which is "shaped like a mother's heart," and Lullabyland; every Christmas toys and tinseled trees are placed upon the graves. All day long, soft symphonic music is broadcast from loudspeakers concealed in the shrubbery; in fact, Novelist Waugh reported...