Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With proper reconditioning, some people with heart disease might even be able to climb a lofty mountain without ill effects, Howard B. Sprague '18, lecturer on Medicine, said yesterday...
From the site of the fabled Tower of Babel in the south to the remote mountain homes of Kurdish tribesmen in the north, the young (21) King of the ancient land of Iraq traveled last week at the head of a caravan of Cadillacs and Chryslers bearing guests from 13 nations. The purpose of King Feisal's 2,000-mile journey: to show off progress on the second anniversary of Iraq's $1.2 billion, five-year national development program. "The most impressive thing in the Middle East today," glowed U.S. Ambassador Waldemar J. Gallman...
Party in Jeeps. Ever since a tangle with the gendarmes last month in a remote mountain pass, Dadshah had been expecting the gendarmes to come after him. One day last fortnight, spotting a couple of jeeps crossing Tangeorkheh, the bandits opened fire, knowing that Iranian cops move by jeep. Instead this was a party of five, including two American members of a technical aid mission to Iran, 37-year-old Kevin Carroll of Issaquah, Wash, and Brewster Wilson, 35, of Portland, Ore. With Carroll's pretty young wife Anita in their party, they had started their trip across...
...whisper, the news spread: the Philippines' beloved President Magsaysay was missing. The long morning wore on. In the barrios, priests offered up special prayers, and Filipinos clustered silently around radios. Then, as night began to fall, came the "very bad news." Wreckage had been found in a mountain ravine near Asturias, only 22 miles northwest of Cebu city. One newspaperman, badly burned, was the only survivor of 26 aboard. President Magsaysay was dead. In the barrios and the streets of Manila, Filipinos wept...
This blasted the lingering hope of his family and staff in Manila that he might have survived the fiery crash on a Cebu mountain Sunday...