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MANNIX (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Mike Connors stars as Joe Mannix, member of a highly specialized private-detective firm called Intertect. Joe Campanella is Lou Wickersham, Intertect's boss. Premi...
Detroit has several top-notch sluggers in Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Don Demeter, and Al Kaline, but their mound staff is not good. Dave Wickersham (19-12) and Mickey Lolich (18-9) are the only two reliable hurlers--and two is not enough...
...anxious to keep it out of foreign hands. Through a complicated maze of companies, they operate 61 ships under American and Liberian flags. Leading the group is H. (for Harris) Lee White, 52, former Air Force Assistant Secretary, now a partner in the Wall Street law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Other principals are ex-Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes (now a General Motors vice president); the estate of ex-Defense Secretary Charles Wilson; and two ChineseAmerican businessmen, C. Y. Chen and C. T. Shen, who made a fortune in export-import and shipping...
When sighted by veteran bush pilot Don Sheldon, the seven were at 17,000 feet. The last time they had been seen was a week ago, when they scaled 2000 feet of the previously unconquered east side of Mt. McKinley's Wickersham Wall. Observers had expressed apprehension that the party had been buried in one of a series of avalanches that swept Wickersham Wall recently, but the climbers are now above the avalanche region and are apparently out of danger...
...Mountaineering Club is attempting an extremely difficult ascent of the 19,420-foot North Peak of Mt. McKinley. The climb involves scaling Wickersham Wall, a sheer precipice of rock which rises some 14,000 feet. A group of Canadians climbed the wall last month, but the eastern route of the Harvard climbers is considerably more challenging than the route taken by the Canadian party...