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Gripps, as the courtly dining room of the Hong Kong Hotel is called. In the Gripps, both British and Chinese scrupulously dressed for dinner. A few blocks away, the steep streets of the Chinese quarter rang with the click-clack of wooden clogs and the incessant rattle and shuffle of mah-jongg pieces...
...Germans made up for this anonymity on the course. In four runs down the steep route (which drops 500 feet in less than a mile), they not only won the 1951 world title, but set a new course record: 1:15.9. Runners-up: the Americans and the Swiss...
...communications unit stationed on what it supposed was an unassailable hilltop was amazed to see Chinese climbing up over steep, rocky crags. The Americans started firing at 20 yards. "Some we nailed," said a corporal, "and they'd take two or three others down with them, a drop of 75 feet. But they kept coming. If our machine-gunners hadn't cut them off from below, we might have run out of ammo. It looked like curtains...
...warn stations down the line. There were passengers waiting at Noel Park, three-quarters of a mile away, but the little train puffed past them. Half a mile farther it whipped through West Green. In the next mile it picked up more speed, but just outside Seven Sisters a steep upgrade slowed it down. It puffed into Seven Sisters at eight miles an hour...
Over the Crest. The track soon grew so steep that the men had to climb on their hands and knees. Only fog-filtered moonlight lit their way. Temperatures fell below freezing. By the time they reached the 10,000-ft. level, ten of the volunteers had dropped out. José Vélaz, with his grey head bare and a towel wound round his neck, pressed on through a whipping gale. At 12,000 ft., the ranger led him over a crest. Below lay the shattered fragments of the DC-3 and 31 bodies, the boys and their air crew...