Word: montes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jetting through five Latin nations, Vaughn showed himself to be an articulate Administration spokesman, with a special competence for the farming affairs that are a major concern of the Alliance for Progress. "I'm the son of a cowboy," explains Vaughn, who was born and raised in Columbus, Mont. He had been known in Panama as "the peasant ambassador"; after he put in an exhausting week in farmers' fields all the way from Mexico to Chile, the label seemed more appropriate than ever. Inevitably, there were formal encounters with Presidents and Cabinet ministers, but the restless, inquisitive Vaughn...
...then-in-vogue Hudson River School painters, built the gallery to house the overflow. Fairbanks' most handsome purchase was Albert Bierstadt's Domes of the Yosemite. The San Francisco Call la mented at the time that the painting "is now doomed to the seclusion of a Ver mont town where it will astonish the na tives." It would have easily astonished sophisticated San Franciscans. Ten feet high and 15 feet wide, the landscape overwhelms the viewer with a vast panorama of nature. The two famed domes in what is now California's Yosemite National Park soar...
Miles City, Mont...
...Romans, always alert to omens and portents, would never have gone through with the ceremony. A tremendous mountain storm sent vengeful bolts of lightning slashing across the slopes of Mont Blanc, and their thunderclaps shook the valleys below. The helicopter bearing Charles de Gaulle had to grope its way in heavy fog through the pass to Chamonix, and a nagging rain dropped a chill...
None of the political problems, however, could obscure the very real triumph that the day was meant to observe. The two-lane Mont Blanc tunnel, air-conditioned and equipped with ultramodern radar traffic control, will shorten the road between Paris and Rome by 125 miles-even more when the long winter snows close the Alpine passes. It is expected to be used by at least 1.2 million vehicles a year, each of which will pay tolls ranging from $3.25 (for a small European car) to $20 (for a bus). Just before its Italian entrance, a proud new road sign told...