Word: mountaineers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cameras is equipped with an eagle-eye Questar lens, can scan the full sweep of a ski run from its aerie on a mountain top. Other miniature cameras are installed in skiers' helmets and on sleds to provide a kind of rumble-seat view of the courses. To coordinate the com plex operations of ABC's crew, which at 250 strong is more than twice the size of the U.S. Olympic team, the network maintains a command post that suggests that the invasion of Normandy is imminent. Day and night, the center dispatches the network's four...
...many? Most medical opinion holds that Chloromycetin is just about the best drug against psittacosis ("parrot fever"), of which there has been a recent median of 60 U.S. cases a year; against typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, a total of 484 cases; murine typhus, 33 cases; Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 263 cases; one form of meningitis caused by Hemophilus bacilli, exact number of cases not known, but probably less than...
...Report From Iron Mountain, Lewin...
...thrusting his skis so far forward that he seems certain to fall. Few have the courage to ski, as he puts it, "toujours à mort." And few can match his mental approach to a race. "When I ski, I ski," he says. "I am all alone with the mountain. I leave everything else aside...
...pipeline, which will cost Texaco and Gulf about $50 million. Machete-wielding workers are helicoptered into the jungle to clear the land for the disassembled bulldozers that follow. Then pipe is dropped in. Four 3,600-h.p. diesel pumping stations are being constructed to boost the oil up the mountain...