Word: mountain
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Thomas H. Flint '58 of Winthrop House and Concord, Mass., was found dead at the top of New Hampshire's rocky Mt. Madison yesterday by two companions from whom he had become separated on a mountain climbing expedition. The survivors were Burt M. Perlmutter '58 and Edward Snow, a student at Emerson College...
Perlmutter said that the trio had camped near the foot of the mountain on Saturday night, and started for the top on Sunday. They later became separated, and when Perlmutter and Snow reached a hut at the top of the mountain they were unable to locate Flint...
Flustered Nationalist officials, obviously unprepared for the outburst, finally called out troops. From his mountain retreat at Sun Moon Lake in central Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sped north to Taipei, called out a total of 33,000 troops, placed Taipei under martial law, imposed strict curfew regulations. Total estimated casualties: at least two Chinese killed, nine Americans injured, one seriously...
...Inferno, Communism has its different levels of horror and misery. At the bottom of the pit, by almost any measure, lies Albania. Last week a Cabinet minister of Albania's still strongly Stalinist government, Major General Panajot Plaku, fled his rugged country, at night crept along mountain paths he had known as a partisan in World War II, and crossed into Yugoslavia. Plaku is the most important ranking Communist among the 5,000 to 6,000 Albanians who have fled his benighted country since...
...style constitution that had served, until Peron emasculated it, since 1853. The regime wiped Peron's name from public display in Argentina, except for curbstone scribblings and his father's tomb. An expedition was sent up Aconcagua, the Hemisphere's highest (alt. 22,835 ft.) mountain, to topple a bust of the dictator. A team of clerks screened thousands of references to his name from the Buenos Aires telephone book-but recently discovered that the listing of the "Committee to Obtain the Nobel Prize for Perón" had somehow slipped through...