Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From San Antonio, Lady Bird and her entourage, 70 strong, flew to the desert mountain fastnesses of Big Bend National Park, where she was greeted by a crowd of 4,200, including, one local noted, "every living critter around here." So stark and jagged that astronauts have visited it to see what they will encounter on the moon-yet fiercely beautiful withal-Big Bend receives far fewer visitors than most other national parks, was thus a prime spot for one of the First Lady's See America First promotion trips...
Jean Stafford (The Mountain Lion, Children Are Bored on Sunday) has a reputation for writing impressively about all sorts of unpleasant human woes and misfortunes-accidents, operations, psychic fear in children. But this is by far her most thoroughly unpleasant book-perhaps the most abrasively unpleasant book in recent years-and it required no writing talent...
...until last November, though, did anyone offer reasonable answers. Then Consulting Geologist David Evans suggested that the quakes under the suddenly shaky Colorado terrain could be traced to a deep well at the nearby Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Military and civilian experts scoffed, but Evans backed up his theory with impressive evidence...
...Inside the church there's an altar filled with flowers; wedding bells are ringing and they could have been ours"--the lines come from Harold Dorman's "Mountain of Live...
...Tommy Edwards recorded "Morningside of the Mountain, "Please Mr. Sun." and "Please Love Me Forever," among others...