Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vinson Massif* is not particularly awe-inspiring in its height. A humpbacked hunk of granite that rises to 16,860 ft., Vinson is the highest known peak on the continent, but it is still lower than ten mountains in North America. For an accomplished alpinist, the hike to the summit would seem like a Sunday stroll -if only it weren't for a couple of complications...
...emphatically porked up his appearance. His cheeks are now so plump that he looks like a kid blowing bubble gum-and his mouth is still so squiggly that it looks as if the bubble had burst. What's more, he now sports a glossy something on his summit that adds at least five inches to his altitude and looks like a swatch of hot buttered yak wool...
Moreover, a high-ranking U.S. official noted that Moscow and East Europe have recently "been listening with great attentiveness to everything we've had to say about bringing the war to an end." In Warsaw, a Polish official just back from the nine-nation Communist summit in Moscow said the bloc countries "are pretty tired" of the Viet Nam war, if only because of its mounting cost. In Moscow, he complained, the conferees were pressured into signing a pledge to raise nearly $1 billion in precious hard currencies so that Hanoi could purchase goods in such Western markets...
Waltzing Imelda. While America's influence was discreetly evident in Manila, the conference was conspicuously an Asian affair-as February's Honolulu meeting was not. The allies' Filipino hosts handled the summit meeting with extraordinary efficiency. The arrangements were Imelda Marcos' province, and she took charge of everything, from refurbishing the Manila Hotel with treasures wheedled from
...tall, scholarly visionary as a new leader of the Democratic left and a new force that could help pull the Southern Hemisphere tighter together. Frei is already moving in that direction. He is a staunch booster of economic integration. He was among the first to propose a hemispheric summit conference, now tentatively scheduled for next spring. "We have a commitment in Latin America," Frei says. "This makes us proud and binds...