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KATMANDU, Nepal — (UPI) Members of an American mountain-climbing expedition today attributed their success in scaling Mt. Everest to thorough organization, good teamwork and favorable weather.
A two-man assault team became the first Americans to reach the 29.028-foot summit of the world's tallest peak Wednesday afternoon.
Bad weather conditions at lower altitude disrupted communications and delayed announcement of the successful climb until yesterday.
James Ramsey Ullman of Boston, spokesman for the group, sent word of the exploit from the expedition base camp on Everest's slopes at 17,800 feet.
NAMES OF THE two men have not been disclosed.
The 19-man expedition was believed regrouping today for its projected attempts to scale two sister peaks—Lhotse, the world's fourth highest mountain at 27,800 feet, and Nuptse, 25,850 feet.
IN A STATEMENT issued by the White House, he said, "These American climbers, pushing human endurance and experience to their farthest frontiers, joined the distinguished group of British and Swiss mountaineers who have performed this feat. I know that all Americans will join me in saluting our gallant countrymen."
President Kennedy said yesterday in Washington, "I am most pleased to learn of the success of the American expedition on Mt. Everest."
The expedition was the third to climb Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand explorer with a British expedition, made it first in 1953 accompanied by Sherpa guide Tensing Norkay. A Swiss team duplicated the feat in 1956.
Communist China claimed it placed a team on the summit in 1960 from the north side and left a Chinese flag and a bust of Mao Tse-tung to prove it, but this has not been confirmed.
The American expedition under Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, an explorer and motion picture producer of Santa Monica, Calif., probably was the best organized and financed ever to attack the mountain.
Dyhrenfurth obtained $326,000 and the sponsorship of the State Department, the National Geographic Society, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. armed services.
THE EXPEDITION moved out of Katmandu Feb. 20 with a virtual army of Nepalese porters carrying equipment on a trek to the base of Everest, on the border between Nepal and Communist-held Tibet.
It set up a series of six camps from 17,800 feet to 27,800 feet. Every member of the expedition was equipped with a light walkie talkie radio for short distance communications.
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The assault team members wore
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special new lightweight oxygen tanks enabling them to breathe in the rarefied atmosphere, where the air contains only a third as much oxygen as at sea level.
The achievement is a fantastic test of endurance that tests man to his limits. Winds up to 150 miles an hour and temperatures down to 50 below zero, snowstorms, mists, faintigue, and peculiar mental effects hamper the climbers.
The expedition included three medical doctors and a psychologist to study the effects of altitude and stress on the climbers. Other scientists included a physicist, a glaciologist, a sociologist and a historian.
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The Honors in English Award was presented to five students yesterday, who qualified through their work in Reading for Honors. English 94.
Seniors Receive English Award
John Ival Blair, Wichita; Dianne Mullane, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Mary J. Newcomb, Lawrence; Nadine Prouty, Newton, and Sue Hardisty Worley, Salina, are the recipients of the award. All are seniors.
The winners were honored at a luncheon in the English Room of the Kansas Union yesterday.
Miss Prouty was awarded the $100 prize for writing the best final examination in the course.
Seniors, take time out from adding grade points, checking to make certain you have filled your science requirements, and rush over to Strong Hall (Room 130) to sign up for the Western Civilization comprehensive examination.
The examination will be at 1 p.m., Saturday, May 18. Officials estimate that between 650 and 700 students will register to take the examination. However, if the "chicken-out rate" of past years holds true, between 30 and 40 per cent of this number will not take the examination.
W. Civ. Registration Closes Saturday
The registration gates will slam shut tomorrow. Review sessions for the examination will be from 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, May 15 and 16.
Students with sophomore or junior standing will receive four hours credit for the comprehensive examination. Others will receive two hours credit.
The summer examination will be given at 8 p.m., July 27.
SWINDON, England — (UPI)— George Kitching, 10, who said he wanted to be a sword-swallower, flunked his first test yesterday when he gulped down a three-inch pen knife.
Fortunately the knife was closed and doctors said they will let nature take its course.
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The lawns of the University turned into a golf course yesterday as the Audio-Visual Education class of the School of Education moved outside.
The students in the class were being taught the fundamentals of golf by Diane Senny, a future sixth grade teacher who is a member of the class.
MISS SENNY was giving a demonstration using a visual aid at the level of the grade she plans to teach.
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About six of the students practiced their golf swings and hit practice golf balls across the lawn in front of Flint Hall.
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BOSTON, England — (UPI) Seal noses are worth $2.80 each to fishermen here.
A seal schnozzle must be produced as evidence before a fisherman collects his bounty.
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