Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small mountain village of Mussomeii, 47 miles from Scelba's Sicilian birthplace, 900 threadbare townspeople gathered to demonstrate against a new $8-a-year water tax. Egged on by agitators, the crowd tried to storm the town hall; the police, ordered not to use firearms, tossed tear-gas bombs. Mistaking the missiles for hand grenades, the crowd stampeded into a blind alley. In the crush, three women and a boy were trampled to death. The Reds had the martyrs they wanted. They quickly ordered a "National Demonstration of Mourning and Protest," a series of leapfrog strikes in the north...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition that fought foot by foot to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...
...Marines effectively ended the cycle of revolutions, disarmed rebels and bandits in mountain warfare (the death toll: 1,500 Haitians), restored peasants to the land, improved health and sanitation, built roads. Setting up a small gendarmerie, they lifted from Haiti the crushing burden of an army that once had 6,500 general and staff officers. They trained civil servants, building a nucleus of Haitians competent to run the machinery of government. Most important, they set up rural schools, where peasants could begin to get the education they needed to compete with the elite. Such was the reputation of the Americans...
...magazine was planned four years ago by Editor Rice and Roving Editor Robert Lax, 35. Rice and Lax, a convert to Catholicism, had been talking religion since their student days at Columbia-where Rice was the godfather of another Manhattan convert, Thomas (The Seven Storey Mountain) Merton. Working with Peter J. McDonnell, a printing salesman and now Jubilee's advertising manager, they financed their project by offering one share of stock with each $5-a-year subscription. When they had a slim $60,000 to go on, they put out their first issue. Now Jubilee has Editor Rice...
DOME-SWEET-DOME "MODERN" Creates transparent bubbles which may be fine for mountain climbers and deep-sea divers but are alarming to "introverted people who" [like] dark domestic lairs with thick walls...