Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parched field near Mercersburg. Pa., Dairy Farmer Jack K. Beck pointed a finger toward a distant mountain rim. "We always used to get rain when the clouds came across that mountain," he said. "But not any more, with that cloud seeding going on. I've stood here and watched the plane fly into a black cloud, and within five minutes that cloud scattered and the sun shone. I tell you, somebody's going to get hurt over it unless they stop...
Holed up in the rugged, isolated mountain country that straddles the borders of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Russia and Iraq, the Kurds are a rebellious, trigger-happy breed who distrust the Arabs and traditionally hanker after little more than a fine horse, a good rifle, and a woman who can bear strong sons. For the past year, however, Iraq's Kurds have been in open revolt, last April demanded an autonomous Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Led by Red-leaning Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (religious teacher) who spent twelve years of exile in Russia, Kurdish rebels have seized control...
...Teddy's undistinguished academic career has not been followed by a record of serious personal accomplishment. He was his brother's pre- and post-convention manager for the Rocky Mountain and Western states-the great majority of which the President did not carry...
...longest vehicular tunnel, stretching 7.2 miles* beneath the icy, forbidding Alpine massif to join Courmayeur, Italy, and Chamonix, France, the famed ski resort. A magnificent feat of engineering, the French and Italian sections of the horizontal hole, begun on opposite sides of Western Europe's tallest mountain, were only two inches out of line horizontally and three inches off vertically when they came together. After 3½ years of toil and tragedy -including 17 deaths, 800 injuries-the tunnel was a handsome triumph over monumental hazards. The Italians began in January 1959, eight months before the French, but soon...
...vacation houses that are flowering in the land are not necessarily modern. Cape Cod cottages are sprouting on Cape Cod and off it, and prefab log cabins are proliferating beside lakes and trout streams-and even, as in the mountains just west of Denver, in regular rows like any suburban subdivision, with a few pine trees for greenery and a snowcapped mountain range for scenery...