Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smilingly acknowledging the banzais of his welcomers, Japan's Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi returned to Tokyo last week from a six-nation tour of Southeast Asia. Then he went off to the pines and waterfalls of a mountain resort to prepare himself for a more crucial assignment, his state visit to the U.S. next week...
...them up on the slopes of the Wolkberg in 1883, the Mamatola tribesmen of the northeastern Transvaal have cultivated their sunny and windswept land in peace and contentment. Last week a convoy of 23 trucks dispatched by South Africa's Native Affairs Minister Hendrik Verwoerd rumbled up the mountain to carry the 1,200-odd Mamatola off to a new home, Metz, in a dank and inhospitable valley 30 miles to the east. The stated reason: the Mamatola's outmoded farming methods were ruining the land...
...flames lashed at the cabin, the LeMasuriers scrambled to safety, narrowly escaped the exploding fuel tanks. Then a rainstorm squall broke and put out the fire. Although they did not know it, the LeMasuriers had crashed only a mile upslope from a sheepherder's camp on Ferris Mountain (9,500 ft.), 40 miles north of Rawlins...
Upon a Hunch. Alone against the mountain, Dorothy LeMasurier kept her wits about her. She carefully covered her husband with part of a parachute. She put a red sweater on a pole to attract search planes, went on using a salvaged bucket to melt snow (by body warmth) for drinking water. Every day she took pains to stand up and do a few exercises. Protected by several layers of clothing against the cold and sleet, she ticked off the days with lipstick on a nearby tree. But shock and exposure began to tell. After 19 days on Ferris Mountain, only...
...morning last week, Jack Putnam, foreman of nearby Buzzard Ranch, rode his horse up Ferris Mountain. LeMasurier's radio-TV company in Duluth had offered a $2,500 reward for anyone who located the plane, and Putnam had a hunch. Late in the morning he spotted a tiny speck of silver high on the mountainside. He quickly reported his find, and an evacuation party was soon puffing its way up the rocky slope. Closing the summit, they heard a faint cry, at first thought it was an echo. Then they found Dorothy LeMasurier on a snowbank...