Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zero Visibility. After laboriously working their way up the mountain, the remaining seven climbers reached the 17,300-ft. level by Feb. 26. One day later, all seven tried a 3,000-ft. dash to the summit. They were forced back by "white-out"-zero visibility, caused by fog against the snow. Next day, three of the party-Art Davidson, Ray Genet and Dave Johnston-struck out again for the top, finally made it at 7 p.m., paused just long enough to bury Batkin's cap and started back down, only to run into a raging storm...
...Army "Huey" helicopters flew out of Talkeetna to search for the missing climbers. Up from Seattle to help came half a dozen volunteers, including Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to scale Mount Everest. It took rescuers four days to locate the seven climbers. The summit men were picked up by helicopter at 13,350 ft. Blomberg and Edwards got back to the base camp by themselves; Wichman and Shiro Nishimae were located in an igloo at 10,200 ft. They were suffering from nothing more serious than stiff muscles, frostbite and a frightening feeling that they...
...months Latin America has buzzed with talk and tentative plans for a hemispheric summit conference that would bring together President Johnson and the leaders of 20 Latin American countries-all except Castro's Cuba. Last week in Buenos Aires' flag-bedecked Teatro San Martin, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the foreign ministers of the 20 countries involved reached final, formal agreement on the time, place and agenda. The meeting will be held April 12-14 at the sunny Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este. The agenda will include discussions on joint inter-American programs for electric...
Already there has been talk of a Romney-Brooke ticket, which the Senator dismisses on the ground that he must first master his new job. Yet he is plainly on a path that goes beyond whatever personal summit he may reach. The achievements of Edward William Brooke will be as much a standard of a whole society's progress as they will be the measure of an individual who happens to be a Negro...
...credit and technical assistance agreements with Russia, making Chile Latin America's second-largest recipient of Soviet aid (after Cuba). On his trip to Washington, Frei was scheduled to have two meetings with President Johnson. Frei has been a prime organizer and spirit behind the hemisphere-wide summit conference scheduled for early April in Punta del Este, Uruguay, which Johnson plans to attend...