Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuesday, November 16 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Mountain, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner and Claire Trevor, is based on an actual plane crash in the French Alps in 1950. Color...
Handshoe, like all the other "hollers" of Appalachia, is a narrow, creek-carved slash between rugged hills. Measuring six miles from head to foot, it accommodates some 200 mountain folk, a tiny grocery store that also serves as a post office, and a one-room school...
...people of Handshoe Hollow are in no sense comic-strip characters -though to bemused social workers their ways often seem as anticly unreal as those of Snuffy Smith or Moonbeam McSwine. While they have few worldly goods and little interest in acquiring more, most mountain folk of Southern Appalachia cling stubbornly to an ar cane way of life and the bucolic virtues-hardihood, close-knit family ties, fierce independence of outside authority-that were the models of an earlier America. With federal funds coming in, no one in Handshoe Hollow goes hun gry any more. Nor are the pappies very...
Room to Prank. By comparison with a city slum, an Appalachian holler offers an infinitely rich, exciting life, which mountain folk extol in a courtly tongue directly descended from their Scots-English ancestors, who first penetrated the region two centuries ago. Children have creeks to fish in, plenty of room to "prank," as their parents say. Last hog-killing time, several of the Handshoe boys dried a hog's bladder, filled it with peas to make a giant-size rattle. Then, relates Floyd's wife Dollie, still shaking with laughter at the memory, they "took and tied...
...trying to prove that a school can be both big and human, but Odegaard already has demonstrated that a strong hand can do great things for a big institution's morale. "Odegaard is the dynamo, and this university is extremely ambitious," says a proud graduate student, John Anthony Mountain. Declares Far Eastern Department Chairman George E. Taylor: "He's done a terrific job revitalizing this place-it's become a really big university and a damn good...