Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sitting atop the women's tennis world, a temperamental left-hander is learning what it feels like to live alone at the summit...
...Interstate 70, wind through Mount Vernon Canyon and up Floyd Hill, where the VWs wheeze up the steep grade, through Idaho Springs and Empire, then right at the fork onto U.S. 40. Forty takes you over the Continental Divide through Berthoud Pass at 11,300 feet, and from the summit of the pass it is just a matter of not doing anything stupid on the hairpin turns that slither down the mountainside like a resting rattlesnake...
...soaring above the summit, trying to land on the slope that leads to the precipice, when the wind stopped. Caught in a rare, freakish downdraft, the kite plummeted. When he saw he would be unable to land he shifted his weight and thrust at the control bar, trying to turn away from the cliff, head out over the ocean, gain some altitude and try again. He didn't have time. Striking the cliff about 15 feet below the summit, he slid 25 feet down the stone face to a ledge. Then the inland wind resumed and pinned the kite...
...German bishops, authorized by the Vatican to handle the case, feared the book's wide influence and demanded amendments. They were not upset by what Küng said, but by what he did not say. Letters passed back and forth, and a summit meeting with Küng was held a year ago in Stuttgart. Three months later, Joseph Cardinal Hoffner, chairman of the bishops' conference, wrote a letter accusing Küng of evading a binding creed, and demanding in exasperation: "Is Jesus Christ the preexisting, eternal Son of God, one in being with the Father...
...risen from next to nothing in the mid-'60s to a postwar high of 1.2 million, or 5.4% of the labor force. West German economic growth, which in the '60s rivaled that of the Japanese, has slowed to a stumble. At last May's London summit, Schmidt assured fellow leaders that his country would achieve a 5% expansion in 1977. The true figure, however, was only 2.4%, and there is no guarantee that Bonn will achieve its 3.5% target...