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Still, his victory looked even more certain on Thursday, when the riders climbed barren, snowy Ventoux Mountain, the toughest ascent of the race and the one in which rider Tom Simpson died in 1967, from exhaustion. So while mountain-climbing specialist Richard Virenque, who just last week was bragging to reporters about his unparalleled fan base, was sucking from an oxygen tank, Armstrong, his teammates far behind, rode with Pantani toward a victory in the moonlike, vegetationless mountain-top. And Armstrong lost the day, as at every other stage thus far, this time to Pantani...
Apparently, there is only one man in the entire world who is qualified to feed the bubble sheets into the reader machine. And he lives on a mountain-top in Tibet. When study cards are handed in late, he must be recalled, a proposition made all the more expensive by the fact that this bubble-sheet guru refuses to travel by any means except on the back of the long-haired mountain...
From this joyful mountain-top of celebration,we hear a call to service in the valley...
Reagan, who spent a working vacation at his mountain-top ranch near Santa Barbara doing chores and horseback riding, was briefed on the explosions on a TWA airliner approaching Athens and in a West Berlin discotheque popular among U.S. soldiers...
...excited talk," "loud laughter," and "disruptive groans" one so often hears in establishments like Tommy's. Really the help should keep "the clatter of dishes" behind closed doors. And the teachers? Well "Harvard Parent" concedes that "the gods and goddesses who collect full salaries must be left to their mountain-top citadels": there is no alternative but to leave the dirty work to those of us who Labour in the valley of diminutive wages. But we sweating apprentices must not reveal to our clients that there may be some loose cogs in the grand machine. Certainly our "own eccentricities...