Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...involving a new and invariably fatal disease had appeared in the wilds of New Guinea, TIME sent Brisbane Correspondent Fred Hubbard after the story. A 1,400-mile flight to Port Moresby was only the first step. After that. Hubbard had to go by bush plane over forbidding razorback mountain ranges to a remote patrol post where a white man's back is still an inviting target to a savage spearman. At Okapa, Reporter-Photographer Hubbard got his story and pictures. For the results, see MEDICINE, The Laughing Death...
...beaver pelt, once the currency of a frontier, has had a treacherous history. In the 1840s the fashion for men's beaver toppers collapsed with the rise of the silk hat, a fashion change that ended the great Western fur brigades and the day of the mountain man. In the 1950s beaver has been slipping from favor in women's coats. "Ladies," says Maine trapper Jasper Haynes, "just aren't wearing beaver coats...
...middle 19th century, Vermonters occasionally wondered whether their cherished Green Mountains might not disappear beneath a new deluge of alcoholic spirits. Vermont Hero Ethan Allen and his hardy band had stormed Fort Ticonderoga smelling of rum; then more and more Green Mountain men were descending "The Fatal Ladder," (see cut) whose first step down was a social swig of hard cider. "Everybody asked everybody to drink," remarked an 1830 observer. "There were drunken lawyers, drunken doctors, drunken members of Congress, drunken ministers." Today, recovered from rum and soberly situated in the middle 20th century, Vermont has begun to worry about...
Some of these Americans lived on farms in northern Denmark; others stayed in mountain villages in Austria. But there were some common features. Each Experimenter spent a month's "homestay" living as a member of a foreign family, and a second month of group travel in his Experiment country...
...public busses, he said, are as crowded as the trains. The busses leave between 3 and 4 a.m. because they must travel in daylight through the mountain roads. For three days in a row the Experimenters began the day's travel at 2:30 a.m. and turned in at 8:30 or 9 p.m.. "It was one of the best experiences I had--though not the happiest," Lorenz said. "We were thrown in conditions just as the Yugoslavs live...