Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story on Rockefeller's Hawaii hotel contains an error. Mauna Kea is not the tallest island mountain in the world. Mounts Idenburg, Wilhelmina, Juliana and Wilhelm in New Guinea are all higher, and Idenburg is the highest...
Then Zorba goes to town on business and squanders his boss's money on prostitutes and drink. Finally, he convinces Bates to give up the mine and go into the number business. He constructs in elaborate conveyor system at much expense to carry down food from a near-by mountain. Naturally, the system collapses. At the very end, Bates now completely broke, dances a silly dance on a deserted beach with is trusted friend, Zorba...
Though Pleiku was open for the moment, the peril in the highlands was hardly diminished. The next likely pressure point in the Viet Cong's plateau push is Kontum, once a pleasant mountain village of open-air cafés with circus awnings and a population of 14,000. Though only 30 miles from Pleiku, Kontum is surrounded by some 6,000 guerrillas backed up by an estimated 10,000 North Vietnamese regulars, and is still accessible only by airlift, as is nearby Ban Me Thuot. If the Viet Cong attack, as seems almost certain, Kontum's fate...
...higher and slipperier. Square-jawed Sportsman Evans took up crampons, ropes and ice ax, fulfilled what he called a lifelong ambition by making the icy, difficult climb to the summit of the state's highest peak, 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier. Guided by a park ranger and Veteran Mountain Man Dee Molenaar, the Governor made the round trip from a 10,000-ft. overnight camp to the tip in a creditable eleven hours and issued a statement: "I am bushed...
...tone of German literature in the first half of the 20th century. The first two were world-famous figures-Hauptmann as a grim Grossvater of a social realism (The Weavers), Mann as a laboriously brilliant intellectual who wrote the era's most imposing novel of ideas (The Magic Mountain). Hesse, who died in 1962, was little known outside Central Europe, even after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature...