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...Stubborn as Sin. Desio's was the sixth attempt to conquer the "killer mountain," as K-2 is often called. The Duke of the Abruzzi tried and failed in 1909; so did the Duke of Spoleto in 1929. Always before, men were driven back by cold as severe as Everest's, gales that can stop a man's breathing, rock falls that roar like siege guns, flinging boulders the size of trucks...
...joined in on K2. reached 26,000 feet in 1938, 27,000 in 1939, 25,800 in 1953.) Professor Ardito Desio had climbed with the Duke of Spoleto. The professor is a mild-mannered little man with a Punch-andJudy nose and a mountaineer's reputation of being "stubborn as sin." Last spring Desio organized another Italian expedition, with eleven mountaineers, five scientists and a Pakistani army colonel...
While Fangio was invading Europe. Gonzalez was burning up the tracks at home. But by 1950 Gonzalez, too, was campaigning abroad. And only one year later, driving a Ferrari, he was pushing Fangio hard for the Grand Prix championship. Brusque, stubborn and fearlessly heavy-footed, Gonzalez was a match for the best. "He never let go," said one competitor. "He would drive the pistons out of a car before he'd quit...
...year and has already become a question of concern to the broad masses of the people." Surplus workers are being rounded up and deported from the cities to farms and mines (75,000 were removed from Shanghai alone). Unrest, food shortages, crop failures, the worst floods in 23 years, stubborn peasant opposition-all these beset China's Red masters...
Cabled TIME Senior Editor John Osborne from Hong Kong: "Communist China is therefore not only exploiting Geneva and the cry of coexistence to settle its account with the stubborn anti-Com munists of China. It is seeking to identify the regime with 'peace,' with the worn but still appealing catch phrase, 'Asia for the Asians,' with what Nehru himself calls 'the certain historic change in the balance of forces.' As such. Communist China is bidding for the leadership of Asia-not next year, or next month...