Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nocturne. In Billings, Mont., Perry Whitfield was sentenced to two years for a $1,570 jewelry store robbery, despite his plea that he steals because he is affected by the changing phases of the moon...
While his margin was still rolling up in Minnesota last week, Estes Kefauver was following his hand westward across the U.S. He dropped in at Great Falls, Mont, to shake a few, flew on to Portland for a meeting of his supporters and finally landed in California for a six-day, 33-speech stint in the San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan areas. On a busy street in San Francisco the long Kefauver arm snaked up into the window of a big bus and caught the right hand of the startled driver, as Estes said: "I'm Estes Kefauver...
...company's name comes from its parent roine in Butte, Mont., christened thus by its discoverer, who, while searching for something novel and mellifluous, read a Horace Greeley editorial in the New York Tribune enthusiastically describing the Union Army in the Civil War as encircling the Southern forces "like a giant anaconda...
...American ski resort was being laid out. Busy as he was, Johannsen never lost his zest for competition. At 60 he finished second in a 32-mile race from Ste. Agathe to Shawbridge, Que. The next year he led a dozen skiers on a 150-mile trip north of Mont Trem-blant, through the Five Finger Lakes area and down the Devil's River Valley. "The old guy set a hellish pace," remembers a Montreal businessman who went along. "He nearly killed us." Until recently, Pop used to jazz up meetings of the Red Bird Ski Club (which...
Louse It Up. Pollard grew up in Butte, Mont., spent his teens as a horse wrangler and ham-and-egg fighter in cow-town clubs. It was on Seabiscuit that he rode to fame. But during the summer of 1938, when the great bay horse was training for a race with Samuel D. Riddle's War Admiral, Pollard broke his left leg. "George Woolf, a nerveless rider who was called The Iceman,' was assigned the mount on Seabiscuit," says Alexander. "A few days before the race, a national network asked me to conduct a two-way radio program...