Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chow Mein on the Mountain. Small, sallow, straggly-mustached, watery-eyed, Chen cuts a less-than-commanding figure. "I am 5 ft. 4 in. tall and weigh 124 Ibs. without my clothes," he says with dignity. Holding his temper under rigid control, he now speaks so softly his subordinates have to strain to hear; if they argue, he clams up and marches out. Feared and respected by politicians,.Chen is popular with the armed forces. Frugal, remote, humorless, Chen serves plain chow mein at his modest home near Chiang's atop Taipei's Grass Mountain, and criticizes colleagues...
...Worry. One day TIME Correspondent Jay Mallin slipped through the no man's land from the city of Guantánamo, slogged north by jeep and foot up muddy mountain trails and became the first newsman to bring an on-the-spot story out from the captives. His report...
When his first son Yoshimitsu was born, Farmer Koji Matsuzaka of Shinshushinmachi, a small mountain town 160 miles northwest of Tokyo, boasted: "He will grow up to be a giant." The proud father did not know how close his prophecy would come to the truth. By the time Yoshimitsu entered senior high at 16, he towered 6 ft. 7 in. At this time he began to have blinding headaches and tired so easily that he spent most of his time lying at home on a tatami. School doctors diagnosed Yoshimitsu's trouble as a hormone imbalance, recommended that...
Most of the improvement showed up in the West, the Southwest and the Rocky Mountain region; truckers in the Midwest, the South and along the Atlantic Coast were still in trouble. Building materials hauled were up 12.2% for the first quarter above last year, reflecting the rise in construction, and shipments of liquid petroleum, household goods and refrigerated liquids and solids were also...
...call it, and it sure is loud. There is probably nothing more than gold in them thar hills, but to look at the screen, anybody might think there was neon. Still, the Sierra Nevada, in which much of the film was shot, is pretty hard to spoil. Its purple mountain majesties look down in mineral calm upon what is probably the most stupendous avalanche of clichés to roll across the screen since the last major western was released...