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...Nuptse (25,680), joined by a razor edge; beyond, Everest itself, plumed in a wisp of vapor that streams from the summit at 29,002 ft. The three giants together enclose a vast glacial basin known as the Western Cwm (a Welsh word that rhymes with tomb). This was the key to the climb...
...histories," says an academic proverb, "and gave themselves all the breaks." During their peak, the Greeks described western Europe as inhabited chiefly by unseemly savages. This ancient triumph of propaganda was somewhat damaged recently when Rene Joffroy, professor of philosophy and an ardent archaeologist, dug into a Celtic tomb near Chatillon-sur-Seine in eastern France...
...gothic churches, later, in disgust, switched to modern ("I could never manage romantic old graveyards"). He denounced many a U.S. public building: the National Gallery was a "death mask of an ancient culture," the Jefferson Memorial "an egg on a pantry shelf in . . . a geometric Sahara," Grant's Tomb a "ponderous, huge monster." With Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, he turned Harvard into the top school of modern architecture...
This week General Naguib spoke beside the tomb of Egypt's Unknown Soldier: "We [have] washed our hands of talks which were intended to impose a disguised occupation on Egypt. Hot bloodshed is the only way of attaining independence. We are not afraid of death...
...Moscow's Red Square. He came not astride the usual cavalry charger, but perched on the back seat of a dove-hued ZIS sports car. After briefly touring the crack units up for review, he joined Georgy Malenkov and the eight other Presidium members atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb. As 150 massed bugles unloosed a mighty blast, he advanced to the microphones and began the traditional address on Soviet Russia's 36th...