Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gandhi, he had remarked at Moscow, India had followed another path than the Bolshevik one, but "we were influenced by the example of Lenin." He was plainly moved also by the example of Lenin's mid-century successors. "Russia and India are coming together," he said. "The great mountain barrier our guests flew over yesterday in a few hours has ceased to be a wall separating...
...dust had settled, a few servants were gone, but there were still plenty left. Daylong Julie played on the wide lawns that ran down to Lake St. Clair. In the winter there was skating on the lake, and in summer the whole family moved to the exclusive Huron Mountain Club, set in a tract of virgin wood and trouty freshet. "She was such a normal little girl," her mother remembers. However, there were suggestions of sensibility. When anybody told ghost stories she was an easy haunt, and to this day she is afraid to put her feet on the floor...
...moved into the mailroom. Ike's Sherman Adams and staff will work on the second floor, confining presidential business to the post office and respecting Ike's passion for privacy on the farm. Facilities for Cabinet and National Security Council meetings are at Ike's Catoctin Mountain retreat at Camp David, Md., 20 miles away...
...Prince's Life. Averell Harriman grew up to the pattern of his inheritance. He spent his summers at Arden, near Bear Mountain, where his father built a 100-room French Renaissance-style house on a 20,000-acre estate with a private railroad. The villages of Harriman and Arden were established near by just to supply the Harrimans. Below the main house were imposing stables, a polo field, a track for exercising trotting horses...
Even if he fails to get to the mountain-top in 1956, William Averell Harriman has struggled his way to success of a kind that his father never knew. E. H. Harriman, the "Little Giant," was an "undesirable citizen" to his President, and he could not get in to see the Emperor of Austria. His son is on first-name terms with Winston Churchill, one of the greatest statesman of the age; he was at Franklin Delano Roosevelt's right hand during great moments of history; he knew Dictator Stalin better than any other American; he has beaten Dwight...