Word: montes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Along the ancient bed of a glacial lake, U.S. 89 runs eastward out of Great Falls, Mont., and climbs into the Little Belt Mountains. There, above the once prosperous coal-mining town of Belt (pop. 757), a plain link fence encloses two acres of barren land and Russian thistle, four watchful electronic sentinels, and a few drab slabs of concrete. Beneath that concrete is buried an Air Force Minuteman missile-one of the most efficient instruments of intercontinental destruction the U.S. possesses...
...Corps commander in Europe and I Corps commander in Korea, retired in 1952 to become athletic director of Montana State University, in 1955 sat on the ten-man committee that wrote the new soldiers' code of conduct designed to guide captured U.S. soldiers; of emphysema; in Missoula, Mont...
MARIBETH DWYER Missoula, Mont...
European travelers and businessmen should be happy too. The $50 million Mont Blanc tunnel will represent a big advance in European transport when it is opened to traffic early in 1964. The 23-ft., two-lane roadway will chop 125 mountainous miles from the Paris-Rome drive, open a route usable even when Alpine snow is deepest; Geneva and Turin. 197 miles apart by road in the summer and 491 miles apart in the winter, will be separated by 168 miles all year long when the tunnel is opened...
Seattle restaurants are crowded, hotels have enjoyed 90% occupancy all summer -and motels en route, as far away as Butte, Mont., are usually full. Last week sales of Seattle department stores were up 22% from a year ago, and not alone from selling souvenir totem poles...