Word: virgin
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Mountaineering veterans of some of the toughest climbs of the Alps, the Rockies and the Himalayas are currently flocking to Peru, drawn by the country's cluster of virgin (i.e., unclimbed) peaks ranging up to 20,000 ft. or more. In recent months, two major expeditions have been preparing assaults on the spectacular snowcrest of Salcantay, 20,551 ft. above sea level. One, an American-French group, has been reconnoitering the peak in an airplane; the other, a Swedish-Italian group, has been warming up by scaling other Peruvian slopes...
...Manhattan, Christine ("Cee Cee") Cromwell, 29, heiress to part of the Dodge auto fortune, celebrated a Virgin Islands divorce from her third husband, Richard Hoffmann Jr. "I got my second divorce on the advice of my psychiatrist," said Cee Cee, who runs a successful Virgin Islands nightclub. "I got this one on the advice of my banker...
...almost barren, of practical results. If Taft's sterile 187 votes are subtracted from his 464 total, he has 277 convention votes from those parts of the country where the G.O.P. either has the lead or a good chance of getting it. Eisenhower has 63 votes (including one Virgin Islands delegate) from areas of little or no Republican hope. If these are subtracted from his present convention strength of 389, Ike has 326 votes outside the Democratic citadel. That leaves the present score of votes in the effective area...
...have recently been getting too Catholic for comfort. Led by Father Everett B. Bosshard, professor of dogmatic theology, most students, the trustees complained, had adopted such Roman Catholic practices as saying the rosary and burning votive candles, were drifting toward such "Romanist" dogma as the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Last month the trustees fired Father Bosshard only to have the students, 47 to 1, demand his reinstatement. Dean William H. Nes, unable to change the students' viewpoint, resigned himself. The trustees are now looking for a successor. Said Milwaukee's Bishop Benjamin F. P. Ivins, himself...
Basuto policemen to occupy the Kgotla ground, the tribesmen reacted. Screeching and bellowing, 2,000 of them bombarded the cops with stones. When Batho himself arrived with police reinforcements, a drunken virgin bopped him on the head with a sharp-pointed stone. Sixty cops were injured, three battered to death...