Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the approval finally came, Kraar flew north 500 miles from Bangkok to the royal mountain villa. He was accompanied by a man who doesn't get to do much reporting-Time Inc. President James Linen, who was traveling in Thailand at the time. The monarch talked candidly for an hour on subjects that ranged from Communist subversion to modern painting. The talks went so well that the TIME men were asked to stay on for luncheon and more conversation...
...inhabitants of the rugged Pennsylvania mountain country around Shade Gap (pop. 140), he was known as "Bicycle Bill" because of the battered, red bike he always rode, head down, carrying one of his mongrel dogs in a handlebar basket. His real name was William Diller Hollenbaugh. Short, skinny and stooped, missing five front teeth, he had spent six of his 44 years in prison, 13 in an insane asylum. Since moving to the Shade Gap area several years ago, he had lived as a hermit in a two-room hilltop shack, subsisting on wild game and state relief checks...
...husband's left leg off. On another occasion a masked intruder shot a woman in the hand, carried her into the woods and tried to rape her-but was impotent and broke into tears. Police questioned Bicycle Bill but could get no evidence that he was "the Mountain Man," as the sniper-molester came to be called. Besides, most people considered Bill harmless, if "tetched...
...nation's crop), and in the plush, air-conditioned clubs above Cholon's shops, coatless, tieless Chinese businessmen in bright Hawaiian sport shirts gather to chiao-chi-transact business in as pleasurable a manner as possible. In clubs such as the Chins Shan (Green Mountain) and Lo-t'ien (Happy Sky), the walls echo to the rattle of mah-jongg stones and the click of poker chips on black teak tables. Plenty of business is consummated as well...
Gauguin did not always rely on available models. The studio of Charles Spitz, then Tahiti's only professional photographer, supplied him with inspiration for his art. His Pape Moe (The Mysterious Water), which shows a Tahitian boy drinking from a mountain spring, was painted from a Spitz photo. In la Orana Maria, one of his best-known canvases, the Tahitian figures strike poses deriving entirely from a photograph of a Javanese-temple frieze that Gauguin had brought from Paris...