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...millionaires; in his plush Park Hotel at Homburg, Germany. Proud owner of the world's most fashionable hideaway from its opening in 1883 until the outbreak of World War I, Host Ritter toured the capitals of Europe recruiting royal guests (e.g., Kaiser Wilhelm II, Britain's Edward VII, Russia's Czar Alexander III). The 150-room Park Hotel became a billet for victorious U.S. Army brass (including Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Lucius Clay) after World War II, last year returned to Ritter's control, became a resort for West Germany's newest royalty: Ruhr industrialists...
...fully accoutred, they struck at the face of Lhotse. Heavy icing is dangerous on a slope of 30°; Lhotse, in many places, is close to vertical. Wilfred Noyce, a Charterhouse schoolmaster, took two days to hack an ice staircase diagonally up to the -col. Camp VI and Camp VII were established on the face; finally, Noyce and a Sherpa gang reached the col and stood in a clear sky on the threshold of Everest. Here they made Camp VIII...
After 15 minutes' exposure, both were weakening rapidly. They started down and arrived, half frozen, at Camp VII. At first neither could speak, but their comrades forgave them that. On both bearded faces, festooned with icicles, a broad grin told the story that Everest at last had yielded to men who accepted the challenge because it was there...
...Overseas royalty began trickling in. Among the first: Paramount Chief Mwanawina II of Barotseland, representing all tribal chiefs of Northern Rhodesia. Outfitted with a replica of the claw-hammered coat and gold-striped trousers worn by his father for the coronation of Edward VII, the chief made the first 300 miles of the trip to London by barge, the rest by Constellation. Also arriving: Queen Salote Tupou of the Pacific Island protectorate of Tonga, one of the three reigning queens in the world (the others: Britain's Elizabeth, the Netherlands' Juliana), and definitely the largest...
George needed all his training in dutifulness to face his first political crisis, the curbing of the House of Lords, which met him almost as soon as he took the throne after the death of his father, Edward VII, in 1910. When the Lords balked at abolishing their veto powers to please the Liberals, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith told the King exactly what he must do: threaten to pack the Lords with 500 new peers. Inwardly kicking and bucking, George V did exactly as he was told-as the British constitutional system seemed to demand. And the House of Lords...