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Although it had to be moved to Interville Mountain-a "rinky-dink" place in McCollom's opinion-from Loon Mountain because of a dearth of snow. 85 "A" rated slalom men made the competition fierce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Surprises Slopemen Race and Jump To High Places in Meets | 1/14/1970 | See Source »

...Innin, the goddess of fertility, or to Dumuzi, a kind of Sumerian Adonis-were huge edifices of mud brick made splendid by intricate mosaics of colored earth. The temples rose in staged towers much as did the Tower of Babel, and each formed a kind of artificial mountain-a steppingstone by which the gods could commute to earth. But above all, the Sumerians were a kingdom of sculptors who, in seesawing between realism and abstraction, seem almost modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE LEGACY OF SUMER | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

...first time a Republican President had ever made a visit of any duration in Virginia. Crowds cheered the Coolidge progress through Staunton and Waynesboro to the Swannanoa Country Club, overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. Thanksgiving gifts poured up the mountain-a monster fruit cake, a dozen quail, a juicy Virginia ham, six boxes of apples, a monster turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Skunked | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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