Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anyone," he said, "who thinks I'm going to climb that mountain and sit on top amid the ice and snow spying on Russia through a telescope, must be insane. Besides," he added wistfully, "if the secret service were behind me, I wouldn't have so much trouble raising money...
...York, "the most beautiful and inspiring of modern creations, the sole heir to Alexandria, Constantinople and Venice." In Pittsburgh, whose smoke she spoofs in her show, Inside U.S.A., Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) accepted a nosegay of white roses from Mayor David L. Lawrence, accompanied him to a mountain top for a clear view of the city. ("Fortunately," reported the Pittsburgh Press, "it was a nice day.") With the best of British manners, Bea confided that she had never really thought Pittsburgh was smoky, anyway...
Special citations for special programs: New York City's WNEW, Rocky Mountain Radio Council, Boston's Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, San Francisco's KNBC, Savannah's WDAR, western radio stations (for service during last year's blizzard...
...Cruz staged one plenary session in a mountain glen, with snow-capped peaks as a background. For other sessions, he ran wires from the flag-festooned auditorium of the Teatro Independencia to amplifiers in the main plaza. As a result, most of mystified Mendoza heard an overpowering discussion of existentialism...
Happy Bottom. With its red dust, desolation and run-down buildings, Muroc is not an attractive place to live. But for the test pilots like Chuck, who do not have to live on the post, it is not too bad. The mountain-ringed desert, with its mourning Joshua trees, has a kind of austere beauty. On its broad plain are little oases - alfalfa farms kept green by diesel-pumped water. There is hunting and riding. When these rural pleasures pall, Los Angeles is only 70 miles away (eleven minutes as the jet flies...