Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last month more than 70 TIME correspondents, writers, reporter-researchers and editors set out to assess the South as it is today, to evaluate its present state-and its stimulating future. Working under the direction of Assistant Managing Editor Ray Cave, Washington News Editor Edward Jackson (a native of Mount Airy, N.C.) and James Bell, chief of the Atlanta bureau, they examined Southern politics, culture, business and society...
...sermons make a mount...
...Sadlowski can somehow overcome these deficiencies and win, mavericks in other unions will doubtless be encouraged to mount similar campaigns, and a feisty season could ensue in the labor-management arena. Within the Steelworkers, the factional fight has already literally drawn blood. A man distributing Sadlowski leaflets was shot in the neck in July outside a Hughes Tool Co. plant in Houston, and another Sadlowski supporter was punched around by three old-liners during the convention in Las Vegas...
MILLS COLLEGE (1,018 women; Oakland, Calif.). An ambassador at the United Nations for special political affairs and a former foreign service officer, Barbara McClure White, 55, wanted to switch to a career in higher education. "The Mills offer came along at the right time," she notes. A Mount Holyoke graduate, White is firmly committed to the importance of women's colleges and hopes to attract more "resumers"-over-22-year-olds coming back to finish their liberal arts education. "They are highly motivated and among our best students." White also wants to introduce weekend or intensive vacation study...
...When Mount Pelee suddenly erupted on the Caribbean island of Martinique on May 8, 1902, a huge cloud of steam and volcanic dust killed 30,000 people, leaving a solitary prisoner in an underground dungeon as the only survivor. So when the long-dormant La Soufriere volcano on nearby Guadeloupe, a French territory, recently began rumbling and belching ash and gases, authorities ordered the immediate evacuation of more than 72,000 residents from towns and villages in the vicinity of the 4,812-ft. volcano. TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich flew to the island and ventured up to the crater...