Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cavalry got lots of blistered feet, fought some brief skirmishes and took some prisoners, but made no real contact with the enemy. The chance of real battle seemed lost until last week, when the U.S. abruptly found its foe in the shadow of Chu Pong Mountain (see map). The result was the first major encounter between U.S. and North Vietnamese regular troops-and the biggest, bloodiest and most brutal losses for both sides...
...embarrassing news reached Castro atop Pico Turquino, a 6,560-ft. mountain in the Sierra Maestra, where he started his revolution nine years ago. He was there, improbably enough, to award diplomas to 426 medical students, climaxing nearly a week of hoopla calculated to revive his people's flagging "revolutionary fervor." For four days and nights, students and friends had hiked up the mountain with the bearded dictator.* At one point during the trek, Castro called for helicopter delivery of 1,000 quarts of ice cream for his weary followers. Tons of food, TV cameras and electrical generating equipment...
...theory was that Eckert, a retired lieutenant general, who collected a chestful of medals commanding a B-17 bomber group in Europe and later rose to Comptroller of the Air Force, would give the office back some of the dignity it had lost since autocratic Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis ruled the leagues from 1921 to 1944. So someone around the place would know something about the game, the club owners decided to install a "cabinet" headed by Lee MacPhail, 48, who was born into baseball (his father was once president of the New York Yankees) and who will sell...
...Cliffie ski team has been engaged in rigorous conditioning -- including early morning soccer games and weekend mountain climbing -- for over a month. Radcliffe fencers are helping to spear the New England intercollegiate Championship Trophy for the fourth year...
...doer who indefatigably does, and a writer who skillfully writes about what he does. In intervals between the composition of three notable short novels, he has pursued a second profession of anthropology in New Guinea and South America, and has written two fine books (Under the Mountain Wall, The Cloud Forest) about his expeditions there. Now at last the scientist and the artist have collaborated to achieve a large and powerful novel that is simultaneously a tale of violent adventure and a parable in which modern man finds religious rebirth in the green womb of nature...