Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conditions in Tezpur were primitive. "I slept in a tent, and one night a sacred cow ate my socks." reported Behr. After badgering authorities, he was permitted to visit the front lines. In Jeep and truck, the journey took 18 hours through nearly impenetrable jungles and over narrow, rutted mountain paths up to 13,000 ft. high. Says Behr: "No devilish imagination could ever plan any such testing ground for troops or transport...
...Cristobal las Casas, a mountain town in Southern Mexico, supplies the Indians of the surrounding hills with hardware, priests, guns and other essentials. Among the town's small traders and farmers, few are envied as much as Domingo de la Torre Perez, who serves as a paid informer for Harvard University...
...Chinese thrust came after a ten-day lull in the fighting and was apparently aimed at driving down the Luhit River valley toward India's important oil fields at Digboi, 90 miles from Walong, in the North East Frontier Agency. The Chinese seized a mountain slope above Walong, but Indian troops "went into an attack and cleared this position, throwing back the Chinese aggressors...
India rejoiced last week in two victories: the Chinese were thrown back in a local action on the embattled mountain border; former Defense Minister Krishna Menon, long a virulently anti-Western appeaser of Communism, was thrown out of Nehru's Cabinet...
...either scarce or nonexistent. This was partly the result of all three networks' New York-based parochialism. NBC noted Rockefeller's victory in New York as early as 7:30 and left it almost unmentioned thereafter, forgetting that at that time it was still only 5:30 Mountain time and many viewers had not even gotten home from work. California viewers, flipping on their sets after dinner around 9 o'clock (midnight in New York), had a hard time finding out who had won in Ohio or Pennsylvania...