Word: mountain
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...Mountain Meeting. Riding the bus to the office and the university from his home in the Mexico City district of Santa Maria, López Mateos kept running into a fellow rider from the same district named Miguel Alemán. Alemán was already practicing law, and when López Mateos set out to arrange a pension for his mother as a descendant of a national hero, Attorney Alemán saw the case successfully through the courts. "From that time on," says López Mateos, "we have been friends." (López Mateos' mother...
...mountain-climbing party in 1938, López Mateos met a pretty young schoolteacher named Eva Sámano. López Mateos married her in 1940. Señora López Mateos' grandfather was British, and she is ardently Anglophile and pro-U.S., but her affection for the U.S. never rubbed off on her husband. He compounds the Mexican's moody distrust of the Colossus of the North with an unshakable belief that the U.S. is run by and for a profit-hungry band of bankers. Told once that only 5% of all U.S. citizens...
Michiko, who stands 5 ft. 2 in., weighs 115 Ibs., and is 34-24-36, is a graduate of the University of the Sacred Heart (for women) of Tokyo and was the first non-Catholic to become president of the students' committee. She met Prince Akihito at the mountain resort of Karuizawa, where the Shodas have a summer villa, and beat him at tennis, 6-1. Said Akihito later: "She overwhelmed me." This spring Michiko joined the Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club and in May won the club's Crown Prince Cup in a tournament, while Prince Akihito looked...
When he was appointed Bishop of Berlin last year, Doepfner had only seen the city once. Short, muscular, and an enthusiastic mountain climber, he was shocked at first by Berlin's flatness, but he soon found his east (60%)-west (40%) diocese as stimulating as a spur of the Alps. He has battled incessantly against the "youth dedication" ceremonies the Communists have been trying to substitute for Christian confirmation, and against the growing antichurch pressure of the East German regime. Last summer he played host at an all-German Katholikentag, which brought some 150,000 Catholics from both sides...
According to native Maori legend, an ancient chief named Ngatoro-i-rangi got caught in a mountain blizzard near Waira-kei and had the presence of mind to call for divine help. Down from the Maoris' ancestral (and warmer) homeland, Ha-waiki, came the fire goddess. Wherever she stepped, a volcano bloomed. She warmed Ngatoro-i-rangi so bounteously that the whole region where the blizzard was blowing is still boiling over...