Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington are not very important. His job seems exceptionally time-consuming. Surrey has not only had to handle Congressional relations on the tax-reduction bill, but is primarily responsible for planning future tax policy for the government. "You have to make the effort to stand on top of the mountain to check over all activity. You have to be prepared for problems two or three years ahead of time...
...stationed within 50 feet of the bright, artificial green sod spread around the opening. Drummers from the Marine Band marched to the top of the hill, hammered out the somber beat as the caisson drew near. The Air Force bagpipe band, moving in slow step, wailed The Mist Covered Mountain...
Boars on Horseback. Preserves are nothing new. New Hampshire's 25,000-acre Blue Mountain Forest Inc. was stocked in 1890 with deer, antelope, moose, elk, caribou, and Himalayan mountain goats. Railroad Magnate Austin Corbin chased boars there on horse back with javelins. Today, there are nearly 2,000 preserves in the U.S.-most of them open to anybody with a box of shells and a handful of greenbacks. Some are nothing more than dusty, played-out farms, stocked with a few pheasants and partridges. Others cater to the whims of an affluent society...
HEAD HUNTERS OF PAPUA by Tony Saulnier. 309 pages. Crown. $7.50. A fascinating account of the progress of a French photographic expedition across the unmapped waist of Dutch New Guinea. The trip, through nightmarish forests and mountain ranges, took six months and yielded the first photographic record of a people frozen in a way of life that began far back in prehistory...
...tribal councils sponsored. Camp Unitah, for example, has been operated by the Ute Tribal Council five years. In North Dakota, where two students taught rodeo skills to young Indian "cowboys," they worked as part of a recreation program sponsored by the affiliated tribes of Fort Berthold. At the White Mountain (Montana) reservation of the Apache, a Harvard volunteer joined a group of Indians in clearing camp sites, building cabins, and marking trails for a recreation park. Two 'Cliffies helped the Walker River Council of Schurz, Nevada, to prepare a roll of tribe members. When this was done, the 'Cliffies taught...