Word: alps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legend is durable enough to warrant it. One Air Force model, having crash-landed on an ice island off Alaska five years ago, still stands there, a monument on a 30-foot pedestal of ice (see cut). In 1946, a DC-3 flew into a Swiss Alp, inflicting minor injury on itself and passengers, who disembarked. Thereupon, the plane sank out of sight into a glacier's soft snow. The thrifty Swiss calculate that the glacier, moving ponderously down the mountain, will discharge its cold-frozen possession six centuries hence-presumably in flyable condition...
...Marseille, Conrad met and fell madly in love with the Pretender's beautiful young mistress, a luscious Hungarian named Paula de Somogyi. They ran off together and spent several idyllic weeks in a rose-covered cottage on an Alp. The idyl ended when a jealous admirer provoked a quarrel. Conrad challenged him to a duel, but then chivalrously fired at the fellow's pistol hand. His opponent, who was Francis Scott Key's grandson but obviously no gentleman, calmly transferred the pistol to his other hand and shot Conrad through the chest. For days Conrad lay near...
Goldfinger. A grey sports car spirals lazily up an Alp. Looks like any other Aston Martin? Look again. This rod has bulletproof windows, and can change license plates at the flick of a switch. Its radioscope tracks a bugged automobile 240 km. away. From vents in the rear it releases a smokescreen and an oil slick. From ports in the grille it protrudes a pair of machine guns. What's more, the rear axle of the chariot is armed with bladed hub caps that telescopically extend to chew up the rubber of an overtaking vehicle. And if the driver...
...party existed in embryonic form from 1936 to 1944 as a right-wing faction, in the American Labor Party, then the main third party in the State. When the Communists won control of the ALP in 1944, this faction, led by academics like John L. Childs of Columbia and old socialists like David Dubinsky of the ILGWU and Alex Rose of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers, walked out. The new Liberal Party polled 320,000 votes for President Roosevelt in the 1944 elections...
Almost the only way of telling one Swiss Alp from another is by the celebrities who choose to schuss its slopes by day and carouse, après-ski, in the little town huddled at its base. If the sporty figure sipping a spot of Pernod at the peak is Aristotle Onassis and the lady sitting it out at the bottom is Elsa Maxwell, then the site is St. Moritz. If the set is peopled by a slightly showier crowd, among them players such as Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer and Deborah Kerr, it is Klosters. And if the Greek fellow...