Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That first famous hike was 50 miles, and this one will be only 2.6 miles-but practically straight up. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, 39, is taking off this week for the Yukon, where he will join in the assault on 13,900-ft. Mt. Kennedy, an icy spire named after the late President by the Canadian government and the highest unclimbed mountain in North America. The temperature is likely to be in the neighborhood of 30° below zero, and Bobby's previous mountaineering is confined to the sand dunes at Hyannis Port. But Jim Whittaker, 35, member...
...team was back victorious, and Oregon was incredulous. OF Portland State had won not the Class D basketball crown or the Yukon curling final but television's G.E. College Bowl quiz, breaking all records and mopping up $10,500 in scholarships. With snap-snap-snap aplomb, the team had proved that it knew the word that means both monk and monkey (Capuchin), the doctor who pioneered the use of carbolic acid (Joseph Lister), the play that opens on the setting of the palace of Theseus in Athens (A Midsummer-Night's Dream), and 200 other facts...
...also releasing eight other favorites in 52-week packages, including Dangerous Assignment, Famous Jury Trials and The Green Hornet. Detroit's Fred Flowerday, a former sound-effects expert, has acquired the licensing rights to two other oldtimers, The Lone Ranger ("Hi-Ho, Silver") and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon ("On, King, on, you huskies . . ."). To Flowerday, putting the Ranger back in the saddle is a particular labor of love: it was he who used to clomp a pair of rubber plumber's friends in a box of gravel at Detroit's Station WXYZ whenever Silver galloped...
...fact, the chances of finding gold are far better for Gulf Stream divers than they were for Yukon diggers. Of an estimated $8 billion in gold extracted from the New World by the Spanish, according to one expert, at least 5% -$400 million worth-was lost in shipwrecks on the way home. The actual value of all the lost loot is infinitely higher, since some 17th century coins and jewelry fetch huge prices; a single Spanish escudo can bring as much as $1,200 on the rare-coin market...
FOXY. Agile in the choreography of cowardice, Bert Lahr leers maniacally, gargles dialogue, and scurries up the scenery in this zany musical about fool's gold in the Yukon...