Word: mountain
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That same day he took part in the kind of event that is better suited to Congressmen than Presidents. As the honorary grand marshal, Ford rode in the Mountain State Festival parade in Elkins, W. Va. (pop. 8,287). Three times along the parade route Ford could not resist the urge to leave his limousine and pump hands. The President's good friends as well as his critics might fairly ask whether right now Jerry Ford should take part in a festival, no matter how entertaining it might...
Members of the delegation met with Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicists to discuss common research interests, and Chang Ho-Chi, professor at "Purple Mountain" Observatory, lectured on the solar corona on Monday...
Helen S. Lee Mountain Home, Idaho...
...Monday morning Moore telephoned Fern wood. She told him that a woman friend of hers also wanted to buy a gun for "self-defense." Fern wood asked to meet the friend first. Moore claimed that the woman was getting ready to go on a mountain outing and did not have time to see him. But the friend knew how to handle handguns, Moore assured...
...fact it was he who leaked the story. In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, an evacuation plan was devised for key people in Washington. It meant that if the crisis grew, the select group would be taken by helicopter to the special command post under a Virginia mountain. Kennedy pondered a short while, then confided to some of his closest aides that if a nuclear attack came, he was not about to leave the White House or his family. He might go up in the fireball, but his pride would be intact; and the nation's survivors would...