Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manchester Snow Valley is excellent; Middlebury and Stowe's Mansfield and Spruce Peak are judged good to excellent; and Manchester's Big Bromley is good. At Franconia, Mittersill is excellent and the slope of Cannon Mountain is good to excellent. North Conway's Cranmore reports fair to good conditions...
...Panama, Juan Perón applied for a permanent-residence permit, anted up a $225 deposit (from the mountain of loot he light-fingered from Argentina's coffers before fleeing) to stand as security against his becoming a public charge...
...result can be accomplished by amplifying dim light instead of gathering more of it. Dr. Albert G. Wilson, director of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., believes that a 40-in. telescope equipped with a Lumicon will equal a 240-in. telescope in luminescence. The 200-in. Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain, the world's biggest, can be made to equal a 1,200-incher...
...least of the good graces attending his life is his sister Elizabeth. In her account of his youth, he seems a little like Frank Merriwell. Adlai could swim across large lakes (two miles in the creditable time of 1 hr. 16 min. 21 sec.), climb a Swiss mountain quicker than almost anyone (so the guide said), and play the mandolin. In her diary his sister recorded: "Today the girls [at camp] saw Adlai!! Tonight one of the girls fainted...
President Pusey's remarks were addressed to a group of about 300 members of the Commonwealth Club. Recordings of these were taken for later broadcast over a seven-station network throughout the Pacific Coast and inter-mountain states...