Word: wyss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in New Delhi last week, after his Swiss climbing expedition gave up just 900 ft. short of Mt. Everest's summit (TIME, March 31), Mountaineer Edouard Wyss-Dunant described a new difficulty facing future Everest climbers. The world's highest mountain, he announced, is getting higher all the time.* Although Everest's altitude is officially listed in India's records at 29,002 ft., the Swiss had expected to find it 81 ft. higher than that. But when they got there the mountain proved even higher by their calculations-29,610 ft. Wyss-Dunant...
...women's side of the great divide, the wives of U.S. Congressmen assumed the responsibility of electing a Mrs. De Wyss Altbee the first woman President of the United States. To President Altbee fell the painful duty of informing her all-female cabinet that the country was about to be attacked by a Russian fleet manned entirely by women. "Our Navy," said Mrs. Weller, the Secretary of the Interior, "will have to steam out immediately and destroy them!" "Who'll steam it?" groaned Mrs. Dwight, the Secretary of Agriculture...