Word: mountain
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Only a minority of the Spanish Basques still live in the remote mountain fastnesses or on the Bay of Biscay and follow their ancient occupations of shepherding, fishing and smuggling. About 80% now live in such pulsating industrial centers as Bilbao and the area around San Sebastian, where they have risen to many middle-management jobs and acquired a reputation as shrewd bankers and businessmen...
John J. Burke and Joseph M. Segel have been running multimillion-dollar businesses, but they run them no more. Burke, 50, spent last week with his family, skiing on their favorite mountain, Ajax, at Aspen, Colo. Three weeks ago he resigned unexpectedly as president and chief executive of Automation Industries Inc., after "a difference in philosophy" with the company's founder-chairman. Segel, 42, prepared to leave the Franklin Mint, the world's largest producer of coins and medals for collectors, which he founded. He retires this week as chairman, five years after he voluntarily began easing...
...NICKEL MOUNTAIN...
...banality and a horror of sentiment. However skillfully they are written, there is often not enough at stake in contemporary novels to keep the mind and heart alive. Two of the most encouraging exceptions this year were John Leonard's Black Conceit and John Gardner's Nickel Mountain. The two books are also in a sense contrapuntal. In one, reality destroys illusion. In the other, illusion is accepted as a means of protecting love...
...Getty. Weak and hungry, young Getty told the police he had been released five hours earlier and had wandered around in the rain trying to wave down passing cars. He said his kidnapers had kept him blindfolded and moved him from one hiding place to another in the rugged mountain region of Calabria in southern Italy during five months of captivity...