Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ziolkowski quickly showed that he had the energy to go with his size and ambition. Ax on shoulder, he went into the woods, felled and milled timber, and built with his own hands a house at the foot of the mountain and a 7Oo-ft. ladder up its side. For two years, until he rigged a makeshift cable hoist and then built a road to the top, he lugged lumber and equipment up the mountain, piece by piece, on his back. He made a model and set out to carve out of the rock mountain the figure of Crazy Horse...
...Ruth have six children, are expecting a seventh) and to help finance his dream, he bought cows and established a successful dairy farm, bought and successfully operated a sawmill. He and his wife milk the .cows (by machine), manage the sawmill, shepherd the tourists and keep digging at the mountain. At times they startle visitors by coming in from work in mountain-and-barn clothes and appearing for dinner a few minutes later in formal dress...
...sculpting has been done by dynamite and bulldozer, but Ziolkowski hopes to get within six inches of the lines of the face by the end of this summer. Then he can get down to detailed carving with jackhammer, and finally with mallet and chisel. On top of his mountain he can see far into the future. "There is where the university will be," he says, "and over here the medical center. The series of lakes will run down that meadow. There will be an airstrip, 7,200 feet long, out there by the highway...
...behind his 30-year schedule. A local supporter has told Ziolkowski that at the rate he is going he will finish at about the age of 117. "You're a good man," the friend said, "but not that good." Retorts Ziolkowski: "I came out here to carve a mountain, and I'm going to get it done...
...much of Spain in shooting his brave try at an epic. To woo realism, he faked virtually nothing; even his big gun. an awesome example of the perversity of inanimate objects, is actually what it seems. To give his film size, Kramer set it against Spain's brooding mountain grandeur and its trackless plains, its magnificent cathedrals and haunted, fairy-tale towns. He enlisted the services of Dictator Franco's army and thousands of Spanish extras...