Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rock-bottom wage. To switch jobs, one advertising executive was recently offered $1,200 a month, 15% of the firm's profits, two months' pay a year as bonus, and a membership share in the Valle Arriba golf club, now quoted at $7,000. Caracas' mountain-fringed East End, filled with ever more of the sleek, pastel-walled villas favored by the moneyed musius (as Venezuelans call foreigners, from monsieur), is one of the sights of South America. To staff such places and sustain the pace of entertainment, some of the hard-trading, hard-drinking...
...granite monument in Georgia [TIME, Aug. 17], which only a small percentage of the population will ever see. Wouldn't $25 million worth of medical research centers, rural libraries, history scholarships and the like prove a more fitting monument to American history than this eyesore at Pine Mountain...
...Lower California, Mexico's newest state, ranchers have sown the republic's biggest wheat fields in reclaimed desert land, and set out hundreds of thousands of fruit and nut trees beside newly driven artesian wells. Among the volcano-ringed Puebla valleys, water led 7 miles through new mountain tunnels has brought record crops of corn and beans. Since World War II, Mexico has switched the emphasis from the revolution-blessed ejido (communal farm) to the privately owned farm, and with men on tractors tilling their own land there has been a healthy rise in food output...
...fear," is the way Shakespeare has England's King Richard III describe himself. For almost 500 years, the world has pictured the last of the Plantagenets as one of history's arch villains: a homicidal ("I can smile, and murder while I smile"), deformed ("an envious mountain on my back . . .") schemer who usurped the throne and foully murdered the boy princes in the Tower...
...bell whenever chow was on. (One day's menu: breakfast-flapjacks and sausage; lunch-potato salad and Ike's special vegetable soup, which takes two days to make; dinner-trout and roasting ears.) In between meals, he loafed around, sometimes worked on a new oil painting-a mountain landscape...