Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three years under the relatively benign leadership of Premier Ferhat Abbas, 61, an ex-druggist who speaks better French than Arabic and has a middle-class habit of falling asleep after a good dinner, control shifted to a clutch of hard-eyed terrorists who had survived street battles and mountain skir mishes in the seven-year war against the French...
...valley. The severed cable cracked like a whip. Three of the cars tumbled 500 ft. to earth, killing all six of their passengers. "They fell like ornaments from a Christmas tree," said one shaken observer. In the remaining cars, 81 other passengers dangled helpless in space. Mountain guides worked their way close enough to rope some of the passengers to safety. It took cableway technicians using hand cranks 20 hours to rescue the last car and its passengers...
...three weeks, prowling the spongy tundra between the Sadlerochit and Shubelik mountains, the prospectors found nothing but Eskimo and pre-Eskimo artifacts, 2,000 to 5,000 years old. Then, just two days before a plane was due to take them home, Solecki and Colleague Bert Salwen decided to prospect a knoll that looked like just the kind of place a caribou hunter might stand, with a sweeping view of the mountain valley. They were right. Half-hidden in a litter of rocks, they found 25 "choppers"-crudely edged stones with which the first visitors from Asia skinned their catch...
...start another approach. "Cleared to descend to 1,400 feet." advised the Sola tower. There was no reply. Next morning, after an all-night sea and air search, the fire-gutted wreckage of "Papa Mike" was found by a farmer on the peak of 1,730-ft. Holte Heia mountain. Strewn across the mountain in their blazers were the charred bodies of Trevor Cowdell, John Wells. Reggie Chappie. Quentin Green. Alan Lee and all their schoolmates...
Loyal Rebel. For most of his first 15 years with the S.P. Don Russell supervised track laying and train routing in the mountain passes where the winter snows piled to depths of 50 ft. Mingling unshakable loyalty to his railroad with hog-on-ice independence, Russell more than once made way for moneymaking freight by sidetracking other trains in defiance of orders from on high...