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...climbing for night climbing's sake, have attacked the spiky heights of Oxford's 73-ft. Martyrs' Memorial,* and left it capped with proofs of their prowess-on several occasions, a chamberpot. Last week, two members of Oxford's Mountaineering Club who had tackled the spire got a sharp comeuppance...
...ball had been set rolling. Farm prices were riding high, and other farmers began to tithe. This week Pastor Rushford preached his first sermon in a bright new church, complete with a modern kitchen, social room, children's department, and a 60-ft. spire. The church cost $100,000; of this, $60,000 is already in the bank, and the remaining $40,000 is scheduled to be paid off within five years...
...bells of St. Stephen's were pealing again, in homage to the holy season. From the soaring spire of Vienna's beautiful old cathedral they rang out the hopes and fears of hard-pressed little Austria-and they spoke, too, with a solemn undertone for all the Western world...
...From the Spire. Last week, as Viennese again mounted the 343 precarious steps to the observation platform just above the lookout of 1683, they still talked about "the Turks," but they meant the Russians. From St. Stephen's, on a clear day, Viennese could see the Red Hungarian border, 40 miles away. They knew it was strung with barbed wire, studded with police stations-as ominous as the camels and the silken tents of the 17h Century Turks...
...Climb. Unlike the Matterhorn (14,780 ft.), a jagged spire of rock to which little snow clings, the white stairway of Mont Blanc looks deceptively accessible from Chamonix in the valley below. Any tourist with an urge can hire guides and make the one-day ascent by cable car and a trek across the Bossons Glacier to the Grands-Mulets Hotel. If he still wants more, he can be awakened at 1 a.m. next morning for the big climb to the summit, more than a mile higher over treacherous snow crevasses, where high winds blow unceasingly and there...