Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loudspeaker crackled in the crisp mountain air: "The next runner will be Bibbia." On a Swiss hilltop high above St. Moritz, Nino Bibbia, 35, a brawny Italian grocer, buckled on his crash helmet and goggles, carefully checked the heavy leather pads on his knees and elbows. He adjusted steel shields that guarded the back of each hand, then he threw himself onto a sled no bigger (3½ ft.) than a youngster's Flexible Flyer...
...they offered only limited flood control, failed therefore to achieve full development of the Snake's potential. One high dam (at Pleasant Valley, downstream from Hell's Canyon) would generate more power and provide more flood control than two McKay-type low dams at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep, he explained to the Federal Power Commission. (Before the FPC is an application from Pacific Northwest Power Co. to build the two low dams...
...spectacle of newspapers expressing alarm at heavy government spending was not new. Still, the reaction against Ike's budget was so widespread that some Democratic partisans were quick to suggest a considerable disenchantment with the President. In Cervi's Rocky Mountain Journal, a Denver weekly, Democratic Publisher Eugene Cervi crowed: "Big business and its willing handmaiden, the fat metropolitan dailies . . . loved Ike as long as he was a 'weak President.' Now that the President's social conscience is beginning to bother him, the harlots of journalism are screaming." More realistically, the Atlanta Constitution...
...Slalom entrants were chosen on the basis of trials held Thursday at Temple Mountain. Those regulars, besides Stephenson and Arkley, who will make the trip are Roger Mitchell and Pete Berle...
...nation's literary founding fathers what brother Carl did for Benjamin Franklin. Perhaps Mark Van Doren's most lasting achievement has been fashioned in the classrooms of Columbia; he ranks among the great U.S. teachers. One former student, Trappist Father Thomas (The Seven Storey Mountain) Merton, wrote of him: "His classes were literally 'education'-they brought things out of you, they made your mind produce its own explicit ideas...