Word: mountain
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After leaving Harvard in 1938 with a degree in Chinese language and history and a traveling fellowship, Teddy White made his way to Chungking, Chiang Kai-shek's mountain-girt wartime capital. There White began reporting for TIME, and in 1940 the magazine sent him on a tour of Southeast Asia that eventually took him to Manila and to a man who was then an outcast from power or influence, but not for long...
...considers Canada's 111-year-old confederation to be an "obsolete contraption," has vowed to boycott any talk of constitutional reform while he is in power. In typical form last week, he declared the federal proposals "profoundly inane." Said he: "What we've got is the mountain bringing forth a mouse, and I'd say a mouse that hasn't got that much life...
...months I thought I had died and gone to hell," says a Scandinavian recruit. "The legion was intent on breaking me down until I could neither think nor move until somebody ordered me to." Officers think nothing of ordering a legionnaire to run-not march-through 35 miles of mountain country, and then having the man practice parachute drops the next morning...
...California's Disneyland, nearly 9% of all visitors are foreign, and the percentage is only slightly smaller at Disney World in Florida. Arabs are thrilled most of all by the roller coasters. A Kuwaiti businessman was disappointed when told he could not rent California's Magic Mountain amusement park for a day exclusively for his party of twelve...
Ignited by the victory, the Redmen cruised through the rest of the tournament and established themselves as the class of the East. St. John's will face the winner of the Rocky Mountain regional at Omaha Saturday in the opener of the eight-team NCAA finals tournament...