Word: mountain
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Last week Robbie's wife and five sons on Okinawa learned that he was missing. Risner's flight of six F-105 Thunderchiefs, said the official report, had streaked off on a late-morning mission against a "military target" near the Phu De Van Chan mountain range, 80 miles northwest of Hanoi. The weather was clear, visibility good, and the jets dumped three tons of bombs on the site. But the airmen had to brave a murderous curtain of ground fire from mounted .50-cal. machine guns and 37-mm. cannon. Risner's jet and that...
Nehru's Heart. Everything about the Kashmir problem is deeply emotional. The land itself produces little but scenery. Kashmir's mountain rim is so impenetrable that there is only one year-round road to the outside world?and it goes to Pakistan. Nehru was determined to keep Kashmir because it was his ancestral home and, as he put it, "a piece of my heart...
Dams are needed for hydroelectricity and to create water reservoirs. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. is seeking to build a storage facility on Storm King Mountain overlooking the Hudson 55 miles north of Manhattan; the Army Corps of Engineers has plans to dam Alaska's Yukon River at Rampart Canyon into a lake the size of New Jersey that could water the U.S. West Coast...
Anthamatten looked up from his bulldozer, and later reported, "the mountain came down toward us. I ran, but not for long. A giant wind blew me down. I kept crawling on my hands and knees. I was engulfed by ice; it covered me to my chin. I was caught by the very tip of the slide. I could hardly breathe, but I yelled. Some Italians came and pulled me out. The others ran in different directions. They were never seen again...
Indeed, so small are the Seychelles, a British crown colony of 92 tropical islands 1,000 miles off the coast of East Africa, that they were forever getting lost. The Arabians of the 10th century thought that the islands were where Sindbad the Sailor discovered the mystical, magnetic mountain in the Sea of Zanj. Portuguese navigators found them in 1501, only to lose track of them again. British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon, who landed there 84 years ago, seriously believed that...