Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver bureau chief. Recalling the day his family arrived in Denver from New Orleans, Ed said: "I met them at the airport, installed them in a motel and took off that same afternoon for an assignment in Montana." After that he kept on traveling over the Rocky Mountain states, covering regional politics, Indian affairs, Colorado's uranium boom and the birth of the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as week-to-week news breaks. To help his children trace his travels, Ed hung an airlines map of the U.S. on the living-room wall at home. Each trip...
...Medical experts believe that U.S. communities should have 4.5 general hospital beds per 1,000 population. Inching toward that ideal, the national average is now 4.2, the Health Information Foundation reported. Highest regional tally: 4.9 in the Mountain States (despite a pull-down by Utah with only 3.1). Lowest: a bloc comprising Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas. Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, all with fewer than...
...This is a whiteout, and in it, pilots may become dizzy and nauseated as they grope blindly for a surface which can vanish even as they come in for their landing. On the ground, in a whiteout, a man cannot tell whether a dark spot ahead is a distant mountain-or a matchbook cover on the snow 50 ft. away. When he looks down he may see his feet but not the surface that he stands on. And when the winds finally sweep the milky film away, they can drive the granular snow so furiously across the continent...
...Army also announced that it would muster out the famed 4th Field Artillery Battalion (Pack), which, with its 125 horses and mules, was created in 1907 for mountain and jungle fighting, saw action in World War II (Burma, Italy). Replacing the Army mule: the experimental 4th Airphibious Field Artillery Firing Unit-a helicopter group...
...Bend with sketchbook in hand. Says Dozier, with a shy pride: "I can recognize any sound I hear at night and tell what kind of animal or insect made it. As I've grown older, I've gotten more interested in the architecture of how things grow. Mountains have a bony structure, just like everything else. When you realize a mountain is a moving thing, you know there is movement in everything." Having first made dozens of sketches, he ends up not using any. Says he: "By then I don't have to lean on any crutches...