Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first man nom inated for the presidency by a Republican convention, but he did not bother to campaign actively, and he lost to James Buchanan in 1856. His business ventures were disastrous. Toward the end (which came in 1890), only the writing of Jessie Frémont, one of history's sturdiest examples of the devoted wife, kept the two from want...
Helpful Wife. But of the many Frémonts imprisoned in the single man, there is one who survives with rare appeal: the young explorer who "saw visions," led expeditions to the West which made him a popular hero and brought back information so precise and engagingly written that the passage of more than a century has hardly affected its freshness. Fremont was a young officer in the Army Topographical Corps when he headed his first three Far Western expeditions in the 1840s. His reports to the Government were written with the help of his talented wife; the first...
While an Indian quintet wailed the rhythm, a squaw named Evening Star one afternoon last week led a new brave named Eagle Chief arm-in-arm through a dance in the Great Falls, Mont. airport lobby. Eagle Chief, off the reservation, is New York's Governor Averell Harriman; the shuffles and wails were convincing demonstration that Harriman had sloughed off his "not active" role to hit the campaign warpath with all its handshaking, speechmaking, political backslapping and Indian ceremonials...
...asked a single favor: "I need your support and help." This was not the request of a favorite son. Said Harriman at Billings, Mont.: "My name will be before the convention as a candidate...
...Patient. In Butte, Mont., a woman telephoned the police station, reported that her husband and pet chow were missing, added: "I don't care about my husband; it's the dog I'm worried about. He's under a doctor's care...