Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glitter Gulch, the approach to the tourist is straightforward. The Golden Nugget, a large gambling house in the heart of the Gulch, is the richest vein in the big rock candy mountain of Las Vegas. It offers no entertainment, just a multitude of ways to gamble, from wheels of fortune and penny slots to big-time poker games in the back rooms. In Paradise (A or B), the atmosphere is more subtle: air conditioning, deckle-edged swimming pools (with extravagant poolside displays of bathing beauties), fine food at fair prices, top entertainment, well-irrigated golf courses. But all are mere...
Moreover, China never ratified the 1913 Simla Convention, which roughly established the Himalayan mountain range as the Tibetan frontier and awarded "the southern watershed" to India and the border states. Red China's new school maps show much of India's borderland as Chinese territory...
...check with Nehru. And "back there" today, India's generals are quietly mustering the bulk of the Indian army in a great line of camps that ranges, arclike, from Assam to Kashmir. Travelers report that Indian "militia" are everywhere, maneuvering in the field, crowding trucks on dusty mountain paths, riding the narrow-gauge railway that puffs up to the resort town of Darjeeling...
...increasingly fantastic employment with every passing day. They string power lines across peaks of the high Rockies, and thresh slowly over northern Canada doing mineral surveys from the air. They have landed yellow-fever vaccine in Costa Rican jungle clearings, and have plucked sick, wounded or stranded men from mountain ledges, deep canyons, flood areas and sinking ships all over the world...
While Rita Hay worth languished at their home in Greenwich, Conn., her new husband, Crooner Dick Haymes, beset by nerves, alimony worries, a mountain of debts, deportation threats and high blood pressure, languished in a Manhattan hospital, at week's end shakily headed home...