Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other Side of the Mountain...
...pros call him "Tiger," and every day for a week he went up the mountain after lunch to shoot "the Slot," one of the toughest runs at Snow-mass-at-Aspen. "Simply magnificent," gloated retired Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, 51, a ski nut who has been using the Aspen ski slopes to unwind after seven crushing years in Washington. In his new job as president of the World Bank, the Tiger will be able to spend about half the year at his chalet in Snowmass, but last week's outing may prove unsurpassable. "This has been a beautiful...
With proper lever, baby's fingers can move mountain...
Freshman ski stars Jay O'Rere and Alan Watson finished in the middle of an international field of 78 skiers at the National Alpine Championships held March 8, 9, and 10 at Crystal Mountain in Washington...
...uniquely American subject: the blazing radiance of Yankee countryside in autumn. Cropsey's magnum opus, Autumn on the Hudson River, now in the National Gallery, was completed in 1860, while the artist was living in London, and commemorated a view near West Point overlooking Storm King Mountain. The panorama includes hunters, grazing sheep, and sailboats, but its real subject is the vivid plumage of birch, sugar maple, hemlock and scarlet oak. A century later, Cropsey's portrayal is still fresh and unspoiled, a continuing celebration of the season when, as Thoreau said, "every tree is a living liberty...