Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he had turned 50 Ibs. of clay into the finished head, Berks photographed it in a mountain pass outside Honolulu, and then brought it back to New York in a special crate that rode at half price on an airplane seat. He had to evade the curiosity of airline crews and fellow passengers, for not until after this issue went to press was anyone not directly involved supposed to know the identity of the Man of the Year...
...more than a month Yemenis from both Royalist and Republican factions have been holding "peace talks" at the mountain village of Haradh to end the bloody (10,000 battle deaths) civil war that has plagued the country for three years. They have not been very successful. The conferees, who held their sessions in white tents symbolizing peace, never got past the first point: what to call the transition state that was supposed to exist until a country-wide plebiscite could be held in one year's time. The Republicans insisted that the word Republican must be included...
...conditions similar to Mexico City in the Mountain States, and Dr. Hanley has recommended to the U.S. Olympics Committee that team physicians and coaches meet next summer to decide on the most feasible acclimation program. "But," he concedes, "when the flags are up and the runners are going around the track, hemoglobin and oxygen uptake measured in the laboratory doesn't seem to count for much. So we won't know the outcome until the race is over...
...conference to end the bloody (100,000 battle deaths) fighting between insurgent Republicans and Royalist mountain tribesmen was actually convened by the principal backers of the two factions. The Republicans are supported by 70,000 Egyptian troops; the Royalist forces of deposed Imam Badr are backed by arms and money from Saudi Arabia and Britain. In September after the war turned into a stalemate, Saudi Arabian King Feisal and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser negotiated an uneasy ceasefire. Nasser's expeditionary force costs $500,000 a day to maintain; both he and Feisal seem more eager than the Yemenis...
...high-quality Maccarese wine. No one cleans up in Italy like the Italian police. Companies have taken up the custom, long observed by the populace, of giving them presents at Epiphany. One result is that on Jan. 6 it is often difficult to spot a traffic cop behind his mountain of gifts...