Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other minority groups. "If the ethnic pulled himself up a bit with the help of the rope," wrote Dahl, "he could often gain a toehold in the system; the higher he climbed, the higher he could reach for another pull upward. He was not greatly interested in leveling the mountain itself...
...More. Sequences, especially those leading up to a shooting match, look like they're filmed in slow motion. They aren't. It's just that the camera--instead of sticking to a man, dogging him step by step--focuses on what's static around him. Expanses of desert or mountain or sun-bleached wall. So the violence that ensues seems less the result of cowboy determination than of fate...
...giant neighbors but has turned Nepal into a highly profitable "neutral cockpit"-as admiring diplomats call it-by letting all the world's great rivals pay handsomely for his friendship. The Chinese have given a shoe factory, a warehouse complex and a highway that cuts strategically through the mountains from Red-held Tibet to Katmandu. India, which dominates Nepal's foreign commerce and is pledged to defend the kingdom, has built a rival road south from Katmandu toward Calcutta. The Russians have chipped in with a cigarette plant and a sugar refinery. The U.S. is working on rural...
Mahendra has also worked hard to promote tourism. As the custodian of seven of the world's eight highest mountain peaks and, like his Sherpa tribesmen, a mountaineer himself, he recognizes the spectacular attraction of Nepalese real estate. The most exciting of several new tourist hotels is Tigertops, which is built on stilts (like Kenya's Tree Tops) overlooking Nepal's fabled tiger country. Nepal also has some less awesome sights, such as Katmandu's Hindu temples, whose timbers are decorated with erotic carvings designed to frighten off the virginal goddess of lightning. Obviously they...
...billion liquor industry have lately taken a new direction. For 32 years, Hiram Walker & Sons' Canadian Club "adventure series" has shown men trying far-out sports in faraway places, giving up finally to enjoy their favorite highball. Last month for the first time, the adventure included a woman mountain climber, who paused halfway up a rock face to ask: "Do I really have to do this sort of thing to earn my Canadian Club?" Meanwhile, Seagram Distillers Co., whose moderation ads since 1933 have cautioned fathers and counseled sons on drinking, switched pictures to a teenage daughter. "But, Daddy...