Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday, Ike went to 8:30 a.m. services at the neighborhood Corona Presbyterian Church, walking the 2½ blocks from Mrs Doud's home. Just before he started, Ike noticed in Denver's Rocky Mountain News a story about six-year-old Paul Haley, who is slowly dying of cancer...
...When we see Kentucky and Mississippi arguing as to who was responsible for the discovery of the mint julep [TIME, July 20], without even a mention of the Mountain State, we think it is time to step in and defend our honor. The Kentucky julep didn't even become popular until around 1881 . . . In the early 1830s, a tavern, which later became the Old White and still later the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., was famous for its mint juleps . . . But there are indications, turned up by our office, that the julep was invented right...
...virtually none of these things to offer. Instead, it said, prospective students would have to count on building most of the plant themselves. Nonetheless, last week nine sturdy teen-aged students were already out in Colorado paying $350 for the privilege of creating-practically from scratch-the Colorado Rocky Mountain School...
...pyramids are its functional skyscrapers, and its triumphal arches are the factory girders. Last week a committee of Americans (including Milton Eisenhower, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, General Lucius Clay, John L. Lewis) announced plans for a huge monument to the U.S. past, to be erected atop Pine Mountain, near Warm Springs...
...stamps, the little stickers good for prizes that merchants gave away with purchases in the '30s, are back again in a big way. Atlanta's Southern Stamp Co., which has signed 500 merchants for its stamp plan, expects to have 1,500 before long. In the Rocky Mountain states, where the craze started up again two years ago, it has already reached such proportions that one Albuquerque supermarket manager complains that he is now "in the stamp business instead of the grocery business...