Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Harry B. Mitchell, 88, Scottish-born, longtime (1933-51) U.S. Civil Service chief, three-time Democratic mayor of Great Falls, Mont., three-time unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Congress; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Great Falls...
...guns. The party was almost sunk by rapids and tormented by mosquitoes, cloudbursts and rattlesnakes. Still in present-day Montana, they portaged around the Great Falls, studied animals that were strange to them: prairie dogs, antelope, bighorn sheep. Then they passed the Gates of the Mountains (near Helena, Mont.) and the age-old Indian war ground at the Three Forks of the Missouri...
Never Call Retreat. In Helena, Mont. charged with shooting a bear out of season, Willis Kroll at first claimed self-defense, changed his plea and was fined $52.50 when Game Warden William Eckerson testified that the animal had been potted in the tail...
Between themselves. Payne and Forbis brush off such haphazards with few words, for they have been following each other in and out of adventures and jobs since they became grade-school pals in Missoula, Mont. 28 years ago. Sharing an early interest in journalism, they worked together on the Missoula County High School and Montana State University newspapers. Out of college in 1939, they both came down with a critical case of wanderlust and left Missoula in Forbis' Model A Ford to tour the U.S. and Mexico. Neither ever returned to Missoula for long...
Lake Geneva glistened and Mont Blanc kept distant watch. In the frescoed hall of Geneva's Palais des Nations, the chiefs of government of four of the world's most powerful nations sat down at the green-leather-topped tables. They came attended by guards, fussed over and briefed by attendant swarms of experts, backed by libraries of data and filing cases crammed with plans. President Eisenhower was chairman of the first session, and therefore in position to set the tone...