Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy clay in baskets. To dramatize the pathos of the forced migration, Red River peasants had made up a song: Carrying a sack of rice, a wife says goodbye to her husband, And sadly cries: "I love you very much, You who have to go far to the mountain region Of Cao Bang...
Cortege of Survivors. A helicopter carried the body to army headquarters at Ibagué, where 25,000 people passed by the litter to stare and make sure that Sangre Negra was really dead. The corpse was then helicoptered to four other mountain towns for display. At last, he was buried in an unmarked grave. Soldiers acted as pallbearers, and the survivors of the Totarito massacre marched behind in a bitter cortege...
...more they searched the cave, the more paleolithic art they found. In all, close to 80 drawings were scratched into the rock. Among them were six deer, one complete horse and the heads or bodies of five others, an antelope, three handsome and complete bison, a bull, some mountain goats, and a catlike creature. Cavemen, it is believed, made images of the animals they hunted to gain power over them. There was a triangular fertility symbol, and one clearly visible figure of a man, headless, but obviously male...
...Kansas City Athletics have trouble hitting a ball out of the infield, let alone over a fence. Owner Charles Finley's solution was to bring the mountain to Mohammed. He built a plywood fence in rightfield, only 296 ft. from home plate, christened the project his "Pennant Porch." Unh-unh, said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, so Finley moved the whole contraption back 29 ft. and renamed it a "One-Half Pennant Porch...
When they looked out from under this mountain of paperwork and saw the President of the U.S. turning off unnecessary lights in the White House, a lot of businessmen decided that he was the kind of man who would understand their problem. So they began deluging him with letters asking that the Government also try to economize on the forms and questionnaires that they must deal with (sometimes under pain of stiff penalties). They read their man right. President Johnson has declared war on excessive paperwork for businessmen, promising to simplify reports and eliminate them when possible. The first progress...