Words & Works

P: On the wind-scoured top of Mt. Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary planted a crucifix, he told a reporter last week.* The small fiber cross had been given to the expedition's leader, Sir John Hunt, by "an English Roman Catholic father," he said, though "actually none of the Everest team was a Catholic ... It was in a small envelope about half the usual size. When we reached the summit, I remembered the crucifix and stuffed the whole thing, envelope and all, in the snow alongside Tenzing's [Buddhist] offering."

P: The purchasing power of Protestant clergymen declined 12.8% between 1939 and 1951, the National Council of Churches announced. Meanwhile, the purchasing power of factory workers has gone up 42%. of service trades employees 33%, of Government workers 24.9%.

P: Ten thousand balloons, each bearing five New Testament tracts in five languages, to be wafted across the Iron Curtain, were launched from a German football field by Evangelical Lutheran Pastor Emil Schmidt and his congregation. Financial sponsor of this spiritual airlift: U.S. Evangelical Lutheran Churches.

* For other news of Sir Edmund, see MILESTONES.

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