Word: whitney
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...Alaska must reluctantly claim the title as "the world's tallest rubbish heap." Our Mount McKinley has nearly 6,000 ft. more garbage and litter than Mount Whitney. Climbers report having to pick their way through banana peels, cans, and food wrappers to reach the top of North America...
...GULAG ARCHIPELAGO Vol. I Translated by THOMAS P. WHITNEY 660 pages. Harper & Row. $12.50. (Paperbound...
Vernon E. Jordan Jr., 38. Successor to the late Whitney Young as executive director of the National Urban League, Jordan is considered to be one of the top black leaders in the U.S. today. A 1960 Howard University law graduate, he is a cool-headed peacemaker who earned his civil rights stripes escorting Charlayne Hunter through snarling white students at the University of Georgia. As head of the Southern Regional Council's 1968 voter-education drive, he helped put 2 million new black voters on the rolls and ultimately increase the region's number of elected black officials...
Richard Ravitch, 41, studied law at Yale before becoming president of his family's HRH Construction Corp., whose volume totaled $150 million last year. In addition to erecting such well-known Manhattan structures as the Whitney Museum and Gulf & Western Building, Ravitch has attacked slum housing by putting up low-rent skyscraper developments in Harlem and Lower Manhattan. A politically active liberal Democrat, he now is a director of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing and the Fair Campaign Practices Committee...
This year, faced with the prospect of another onslaught of Americans setting out in a fit of peak to make it to the top of Whitney, the Forest Service has reluctantly limited the number of overnight climbers to 75 a day. Reservations are required. But forget about Fridays and Saturdays through August. Whitney is already booked solid. Give Mount Kilimanjaro a call...