Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After nearly two weeks under virtual siege, Brigade Commander Colonel Lynnwood Johnson (whose men call him "The Big Puu"-Hawaiian for mountain-in tribute to his 6-ft. 5-in. stature) struck back. "I'm going to level those woods into a golf course," he said, waving his long arm at a dense patch of scrub spitting heavy Viet Cong fire. In three days his troops painfully pushed their perimeter out 2,000 ft. in each direction, followed closely by bulldozers slapping down trees and demolition and chemical teams fumigating and firing tunnels. By week...
Lions in the Sun. For all the intricate international involvements, Zambia's single most important source of oil is "the Great North Road" that connects it-sort of-with Tanzania. Winding for more than 1,000 miles through rain forests, game plains and mountain ranges, the road may well be the world's worst international highway. Its dizzy hairpin turns were scraped out and leveled (often with dragged thornbushes) by African tribesmen working off their tax debts. Along its flat stretches, the road is little more than a trail of treacherous sand or soap-slick mud. Black, blinding...
...London in 1932. A year later they had their first child, Eva.* That started Rubinstein thinking about the future. Says he: "I didn't want people telling my child after I died, 'What a pianist your father might have been!' " In 1934, he took his family to a mountain cottage in southeastern France, rented an old upright piano and set it up in a nearby stable. Often playing by candlelight, Rubinstein labored for three months, working as much as nine hours a day, polishing his technique and repertory. The discipline took. Into his fingers he poured his long-suffocated musical...
...combat the new low mountain morality, ski areas are fighting back. Bogus Basin, Idaho, now hires off-duty deputy sheriffs to patrol the piste in "plain clothes," passes out notices to advertise the fact. Squaw Valley has put up posters offering $100 reward to those who can catch a thief. And resorts as chic and cher as Vail, Colo., have been forced to install racks that lock skis in place...
...else fails, the irate skier has no choice but to play "Head them off at the pass." When a vacationer at Treasure Mountain Resort, Utah, discovered that his skis had been swiped while he was buying a Chap Stick, he hopped into his car, took a short cut to the spot where the ski road meets the highway. As each car stopped for the traffic, he counted the number of skis on top, paired them off with the passengers until he found a car with one too many pair of skis. He was back on the slopes for a final...