Word: goatskins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient capital of Baltistan. they moved north to a valley where the slow ascent began. Week after week, they toiled upwards in a climate where a bareheaded man with his feet in the shade can get sunstroke and frostbite simultaneously. They bounced across torrents on inflated goatskin rafts, threaded their way through gorges whose walls rose sheer to pinnacles two miles above them. In May they left behind the last green spikes of living vegetation, and entered into a land where no birds sing. In their faces was a biting wind, boring relentlessly down from Baltoro glacier...
Another unusual map, in the reception room, has no continental outlines, but shows only the world's major routes of communication. Hand-tooled in Nigerian goatskin, the map covers nearly 350 square feet. The legend underneath it says, in part: "The map above you is not a fantasy. It is a factual design of one world man has built upon the earth. It is the particular world of international communication. No land masses appear here, nor oceans. For it is the very essence of communication to transcend these - to render continents into carriers, seas into bridges . . . Here exposed...
...tournament, with Spain and France running neck & neck for the world title, San Sebastian was abuzz with pelota talk. The local fronton (court) was crammed with 3,000 spectators straining at the wire screen that separated them from the players (and also from the hard rubber ball, covered with goatskin, that zips up & down the court at a 100 m.p.h. clip...
...declared a silent amnesty for many guerrillas who had returned home from the mountains. At Agios Georgios on the slopes of Mt. Helicon, the polling place was the schoolhouse from which guerrillas last year had kidnaped the teacher. An election committee of village elders-all with white mustaches, goatskin jackets and shepherd's crooks-presided over the poll. When an American reporter entered they said in chorus: "All is quiet...