Word: mountain
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...lake in the world (after the Peruvian-Bolivian Titicaca and Oregon's Crater Lake). Poured out over California, it would submerge the entire state in 14½ in. of water. Withal, Tahoe is a volcanic and glacial marvel, ringed for one-third of the year by snow-dazzling mountain tops. To Mark Twain, Tahoe was a "noble sheet of blue water." In the past decade, it has faintly but frighteningly threatened to become a vast dead sea of green slime...
...craggy features of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt blasted out of the face of South Dakota's Mount Rushmore are world renowned. Less known is a rival of brobdingnagian proportions looming into sight on Stone Mountain, a freak outcropping of granite that juts 700 feet above the plains of Georgia, 16 miles from Atlanta. Subject of the Stone Mountain Memorial: the heroes and leaders of the Confederacy-Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas ("Stonewall") Jackson...
...Stone Mountain will not produce a new champion, for the sculptor who conceived both it and Mount Rushmore was an American-born Rodin pupil, the late John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum. Back in 1916, he took on the Stone Mountain commission from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, at one time considered marching 1,200 stone Confederate soldiers across the cliff. The project went forward by fits and starts. First, World War I interrupted. Lee's head was finally unveiled in 1924 with a dizzying breakfast for 30 served atop the general's shoulder. But costs were...
...backers next hired Sculptor Augustus Lukeman, who blasted away all of Borglum's details. Chipping away at Stone Mountain continued for three years, following essentially the grand conception of Borglum, who took himself off to Mount Rushmore. Even the sale of a million dollars worth of commemorative coins could not keep up with expenses. Not until 1958 did the state of Georgia undertake the financing of the memorial, and only two years ago was St. Louis-born Sculptor Walker Hancock taken on to finally finish the grandiose project. There is not likely to be any further delay. Today drillers...
Brown-Forman started diversifying in 1956, when it paid $20 million for the 54-bbl.-a-day Jack Daniel Distillery, which has been located in the same quiet mountain glen near Lynchburg, Tenn., for a hundred years. The Daniel output has, under Brown-Forman management, been doubled, though it still far from meets the demand for what some drinkers regard as the best sippin' whiskey of all. The company now sells Usher's Scotch, Bols liqueurs and imported wines as well, and Street's main job will be to look out for other likely acquisitions...