Word: mountaineers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweet William and May apple and columbine bright on the ledges, the dogwood dotting the green rise to the west, the clear bulge of Duck Creek as it purls over the smooth stones through Duck Hollow. Eb ? his real name is Elbert, but one doesn't call a mountain man that ? is 56, and he went blind seven years ago. (Degenerative blindness afflicts many Appalachian dwellers as a result of in breeding.) Lank and long-striding in his pale blue bib overalls, his sightless eyes gleaming under a faded brown fedora, Eb stalks his 52 hillside acres mending...
Like his predecessor, Long feels that a specific postwar period came to an end with the Kennedy Round. "Our task is to secure this achievement," he says, "like a mountain climber secures his foothold." It will be a difficult task, since U.S. legislators, prompted by shrinking markets for U.S. goods, are already considering a score of protectionist measures (TIME, April 12). Such measures would invite retaliation and the resulting dustup could undo years of bargaining almost overnight...
According to the Rocky Mountain Times (Denver), Humphrey captured 40 per cent of the precincts--to McCarthy's 30 per cent and Kennedy's 20 per cent. Colorado's 35 votes at the Democratic National Convention are still very much in question...
...about as much attention." Investigating other byways of sport, Broun reported on the Copacabana waiter who felt that "presiding over the organized frenzy" of the club complemented his training as an umpire, the little-known pro golfer who, without an army of following fans, is "as lonely as a mountain climber," and the football game between two highbrow Eastern colleges that "left the field strewn with contact lenses...
...declared a moral war on the bandits. The mayor of the northern town of Nuoro has demanded their punishment, crying, in Sardinia's Latinate dialect, "Zustissia cherimm!" (We want justice!). Nearly 1,000 shepherds and hunters have joined carabinieri and police dogs in searching for the bandits' mountain hideouts in the island's northwest. In recent weeks, they have combed through almost 800 sq. mi. of rocky terrain honeycombed with gorges and grottoes...