Word: mountaineers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mountain. Not so long ago, most game-fish anglers favored lines testing at 80 to 130 lbs. of pressure before they would break, heavy, inch-thick rods, and big 9/0 to 12/0 reels almost powerful enough to winch in a whale. But after a fisherman had caught his first dozen sailfish, and heaved enough tuna on the deck to keep the family in sandwiches for years, what sport was there left in the game? What was left was to match the tackle to the fish-and watch his smoke. The 70-lb. white marlin that died like a guppy...
...year-old McGill, widely known as "the Voice of Reason in the South," embodies several of the disparate elements that make up this New South. His penetrating, almost colorless eyes and bristle gray hair suggest the Mountain South; the mellow courtesy and the slow, hypnotic cadence of the careful storyteller recall the Cotton South; his easy humor and fascination with historical minutiae bespeak the Southern Culture which has always been more a potential than a reality...
Those of us who simply knew him, whose lives were personally touched by his fire, and who listened to the musical cadence and vaulting poetry of his speech--"I have a dream, the last, free at last, (only last Wednesday) I have been to the mountain top"--and those marched behind him for justice, we are together now, in communion with his spirit...
...freedom ring. From the prodigious hilltops ot New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. And when this happens, when we let it ring, we will speed that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro...
...mountaintop. I wont mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will' get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not fearing...