Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goodwin Jess,* their second child, was born in a tiny house in Provo in 1896. Father Knight was restless and bored with the law, and when Goodie was still a small boy, the family moved on to Los Angeles, taking along ten carloads of mountain horses to sell in California as a grubstake...
...boom. Once slurred as the city of "100 churches and one bathtub," the capital now boasts new hotels, nightclubs, theaters. Around Quito, however, in the eroded Andean valleys that are overpopulated with 60% illiterate Indians, the economy is still sluggish. The Panama-hat industry, once a mainstay of the mountain Indians, is dying...
Both group travel and package tours are booming. Stenographers, farmers, mountain climbers are banding together to book their own special excursions. In Manhattan 25 photographers will take off in July for a 30-day picture-taking swing through Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, five other countries; a group of 100 congressional secretaries will sail in midsummer to escape Washington's heat. Last December American Express offered 19 Banner Tours to Europe (42 days for $1,225 to $1,645), sold them out by February, had to add more to meet the demand. Its de luxe student tours (54 days...
...hulking young safari leader who can stalk a kudu, sight a Mannlicher-Schoenauer and get shikkered on gin with the best big-game hunters. The sinister shadow on his life is his childhood playmate, the black Kimani. who becomes a Mau Mau at bestial oath-taking ceremonies in a mountain hideout and butchers Peter's family in sanguinary scenes of the kind that Author Ruark insists upon describing over and over again in detail...
...corners Kimani at his mountain cave and strangles him. Then he carries Kimani's infant son down to the family farm, hoping that the child may grow up with his own sister's baby - just as he and Kimani had before. In some vague way, suggests Author Ruark, the next generation may find peace; if not, the surviving baby can always serve as an excuse for an equally bloody sequel...