Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven Harvard mountain climbers, who for four days had been feared lost on the treacherous northern slopes of Alaska's Mt. McKinley, were spotted Sunday night by a rescue plane and appear to be safe and continuing their climb...
Every member of the Harvard group is an accomplished mountain climber. Abrons has previously climbed Mt. McKinley by another approach...
Mount Athos Sir: Your article, "The State of the Faith," July 5, was well timed, well put, and to the point. The magnificent and deeply meaningful photos of the holy mountain, Mount Athos, comprise a precious book of unwritten words-a treasure in itself...
...Guiana, says in Public Health Reports that the bedbug has been accused of carrying the microbes of no fewer than 30 infectious diseases: anthrax, brucellosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, leprosy, paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumococcal pneumonia, staphylococcal septicemia, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid fever, boutonneuse fever, epidemic typhus, exanthematous typhus, Q fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, epidemic jaundice (Brazzaville), sleeping sickness, encephalomyelitis, influenza, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, poliomyelitis, smallpox, yellow fever, Chagas' disease, malaria, oriental sore, mansonelliasis, onchocerciasis...
...chimps, but gorillas still have a terrible reputation. This is enhanced by the snorting, dust-throwing performances that they sometimes put on in zoos. But the picture of the gorilla as a beastly beast draws only tolerant smiles from Zoologist George B. Schaller. After two years spent among the mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei) that live near Lake Kivu in the eastern Congo, Schaller is convinced that his hairy friends are placid, peace-loving creatures who seldom damage anything except edible plants. His book, The Mountain Gorilla (University of Chicago; $10), is crammed with more information about the great beasts...