Word: montes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic analysis of the Eastern European satellite nations; the Wall Street Journal's Louis Kohlmeier received the national reporting award for being the first of many to account for President Johnson's personal fortune; Melvin Ruder, publisher-editor of the Hungry Horse News in Columbia Falls, Mont., won the local reporting award for covering raging floods in the Northwest...
...Pickled Bat. Elsewhere one-room teachers, more open to new methods, take advantage of their unique situation to create a modern ideal: the ungraded school. In a five-year-old, electrically heated brick school amid the rolling hills of Acton, Mont., 20 miles from Billings, Mrs. Lorna McKenney, 40, lets her nine pupils ignore grade lines, develop at any pace they can. Lugene Ivie, in her second year, reads so fast she stumbles over the words...
...women appeared in the emergency room of St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Mont., one afternoon early last summer and insisted that they had been poisoned by drinking beer. The doctors were doubtful, but there was no denying that the patients' faces were flushed, their hearts were racing, and they were vomiting. They complained of a metallic taste in their mouths, and of pins-and-needles sensations in their feet, legs and hands (which they said felt swollen, although they looked normal...
...January 1958, Thompson was ordered to report to the Air Force base in Great Falls, Mont. "When I told them, the Russians got shook up and excited," he recalled. "They gave me $1,000 and told me to buy a short-wave radio and tune in on a special part of the band and listen for the code words 'Amour Lenin.' " The Reds gave him a cigarette lighter decorated with four aces and told him a Soviet agent with an identical lighter would meet him in front of a movie theater in Smiths Falls, Ont., 1,650 miles...
...base town of Zermatt when none other than Italy's Walter Bonatti turned up last week to try a Matterhorn ascent. Bonatti, 34, is one of the best-known mountain climbers in the world -the handsome, brooding hero of a dramatic rescue on France's Mont Blanc, the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2 in 1954, the fellow who in 1955 spent six days and five nights alone clawing his way up sheer rock and ice to become the only man ever to conquer Mont Blanc's Aiguille du Dru singlehanded...