Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Emperor and people enjoy the new freedom. Hirohito chafes at remaining restrictions. At Unzen, Kyushu's beautiful mountain resort, he spotted an odd type of moss growth in a pond. Botanist Hirohito began to wade in after it. His chamberlain tried to restrain him; it was too dangerous. But by this time Japanese photographers had jumped into the pond to take pictures of the Emperor at its edge. "If it isn't dangerous for them," protested Hirohito, "why is it dangerous for me?" Sighed the chamberlain: "If Your Majesty can find a newspaperman's armband...
...Coffee. Brazil has natural riches to match her size. Her great Volta Redonda steel plant-South America's largest-feeds off a quarter of the earth's known iron deposits, heavily concentrated in & around the fabulous "iron mountain" of Itabira. Brazil also has significant deposits of most of the other minerals useful to man. She ranks fourth among the world's independent nations in hydroelectric potential. Geologists estimate that oil-bearing formations lie beneath a quarter of her sparsely settled 3,286,170 square miles of territory...
...Geographic's tax-free earnings (it is classed as an educational institution). Besides the magazine, the society also publishes books, bulletins and maps, maintains a 20,000-volume library, sponsors geographic lectures and underwrites scientific expeditions. Grateful explorers have named after Grosvenor a Greenland sea shell, an Antarctic mountain range, an Alaskan lake, a Chinese plant and a Peruvian fish...
Sancton is no newcomer to either Stanstead County or the Journal. He first came to the leisurely little town of Rock Island (pop. 1,395)-in the rolling, Green Mountain country along the Quebec-Vermont border-to attend Stanstead College in the '30s. As a student, he covered college activities for the Journal. When the college's main building burned down, Sancton flashed the news to Montreal's Gazette. He got a byline and his first full-time reporter...
Over the weekend Edelman told reporters that he would be glad to appear. "I certainly have nothing to hide--and nothing to be ashamed off," he said. "A bit of youthful curiosity has made a mountain out of a molehill...