Word: mountaineers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twenty hours were actual flying time. There were stops for fueling in Gander, a haircut in Reykjavik, and golf in Prestwick. Then, vacationing in Europe, Hughes escaped rain in Switzerland by flying to Spain. On that flight, his passenger was his 72-year-old mother. "Watch out for that mountain," she remarked as they went past Mont Blanc a good 30 miles away...
...most of South Viet Nam, the night still belongs to the Viet Cong. Under cover of darkness, they infiltrate men down the mountain trails from Laos and North Viet Nam, move supplies, farm their paddyfields, build their bunkers, position their troops and launch many of their attacks. During the day, they generally disappear, sleeping and hiding beneath thick jungle canopies, taking refuge in hillside caves or melting back into the "peaceful" civilian population. The U.S. has long tried to interdict the Communists' nighttime movements by regularly shelling and bombing trails and camps where their presence was suspected...
Bamboo & Bromelia. Currently, Roberto is busy landscaping grounds for the Dorado Hilton in Puerto Rico, but he is happiest in the gardens of his mountain country estate 30 miles east of Rio. There he strolls among more than 300 varieties of philodendrons (one of them named by botanists the Philodendron burle marx) and specimens of bromelia. "It is obvious," he says, "that the concept of a garden goes beyond an esthetic composition. It also signifies the necessity of men to live intimately with nature...
...first 65 years, Washington's collection was nothing to show anyone. Founded in 1879, it consisted mainly of odds and ends cast off by Missourians: embossed beer tankards, a Greek vase collection, a marble mountain nymph by a local artist (now in a university library and known to undergraduates as "the White Rock Girl"). Then, in 1945, Curator Horst W. Janson, aided by a committee, weeded out 125 paintings and 500 pieces of bric-a-brac, auctioned off the lot for $40,000. The money was used to purchase 28 paintings, sculptures, collages and tapestries by Picasso, Braque, Moore...
...overspending by the governments of Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard. To restore public confidence, Kiesinger's seven-month-old coalition regime last week finally reached for drastic measures that will put the budget in better balance and then, the government hopes, help push the economy back up the mountain...