Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That same evening, the two Presidents helicoptered to the seclusion of nearby Camp David, the Catoctin Mountain retreat where seven previous U.S. Presidents have sought diplomatic privacy with other world leaders. The press was barred, and even Washington's eager officialdom was reduced to a select handful.* Carter and Sadat had some 50 hours available for candid and unfettered discussion...
...diplomatic maneuvering over the Soviets' sagging satellite began in mid-December. It centered, at first, in a green-painted chamber housed half a mile deep within the solid pink granite of Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain, headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). There, technicians at the Space Defense Center track the 4,600 pieces of machinery now floating in space -including no fewer than 939 satellites...
SITTING IN AN OUTDOOR hot tub during a Cambridge winter seems like an invitation to pneumonia, but Sandy Alexander '79, a California expatriate, says snow and tubs go well together. "My brother and I used to go in an outdoor Jacuzzi up on Mammoth Mountain in the winter. We'd get out and roll around in the snow in our bathing suits, throw snowballs at each other. The cold doesn't hit you for about 15 seconds. Back in the tub your skin prickles all over--it's the greatest feeling." A hot tub might be just the thing...
...number of applications from California increased to 1079, from 902 last year, with more still expected, Fitzsimmons said. There was also an increase in the number of applicants from the mountain states and the Northwest...
...natural. Home of many world-class skaters and skiers, the village has more than an Olympic heritage; it also has many of the physical elements necessary for the Games. Nearby Mount Van Hoevenberg boasts North America's only bobsled run plus Olympic cross-country skiing courses. Neighboring Whiteface Mountain rises 4,867 ft, and its icy trails can test the knees and nerves of any Olympian. Moreover, the village still has, and uses, the ice arena built for the 1932 Games...