Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Black Mountain...
Born in the little western mountain town of Maricao, he escaped the capital-city fixation that besets so many Latin American physicians. He resented the fact that in 1934 San Juan had 35% of the island's doctors while most of the communities had none. Working his way up through the Commonwealth's health department, Dr. Arbona spent years organizing Puerto Rico's scattered towns and villages into five medical regions, each with a modern medical center...
...taconite amendment" to the state constitution that gives mining companies, traditionally fair game for steep taxes, an assessment no higher than other businesses. One day after the election, in an indication of what was to come, U.S. Steel announced that it would build a $120 million taconite plant at Mountain Iron, Minn...
...EVER WHITE MOUNTAIN translated and edited by Inez Kong Pai. 175 pages. Tuttle...
Sijo are still written in Korea and, as might be expected in such troublous times, their burden once more is often political. This one, not included in The Ever White Mountain, was written in 1954, at the end of the Korean War, by Yi Un-sang, the foremost living sijo poet...