Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reflections coffee house at 10 Mt. Auburn St. near the Square, features a different folk performer every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. This week it's Bill Bellamy tonight, followed by the Bunker Mountain Fiddlers on Tuesday and Lee Kidd on Wednesday. The Fiddlers fiddle, Kidd plays blues, and Bellamy is something of a mystery to the Reflections employees, none of whom can tell my what he does, except it's folk...
...enough, warming the one state that is usually frozen stiff. In Anchorage, Alaska, where the thermometer was up to a comparatively balmy 45° last week, the ice was so soft that hockey players went home in disgust. Meanwhile, snowstorms avoided areas that are normally blanketed with white. Rocky Mountain ski operators complained bitterly about the clear skies. Sun Valley, Idaho, the haven of the wealthy and the sedate, had to use snowmaking machines, and even then managed to keep open only three of its 60 runs...
Although cold is a customary way of life during New England winters, many cities in Maine have already exhausted their snow-removal budgets. Highway crews in Connecticut have eaten through a 48,000-ton mountain of road salt near Hartford. "You might get a bucketful if you took a broom and swept the yard," said Edward Archibald, a highway department official. While blizzards battered Boston, the doughty breed of ice fishermen in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts pensively sipped Jack Daniel's, and kept right on angling in their snug lake shacks...
...market-and allow troops easy access for anti-guerrilla raids. In one of the heaviest such engagements, a Thai-Malaysian force of 4,000 troops-the first cooperative effort of this kind-is waging a joint campaign backed by heavy air and artillery strikes against the guerrillas' mountain strongholds in the south...
Died. Gary M. Gilmore, 36, convicted murderer who was the first American to be executed in nearly a decade; shot by a firing squad; at the State Prison, Point of the Mountain, Utah...