Word: mountaineers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simon, Cousteau and Pereira all were pleased with the finished stories, which we hope is the case most of the time. But it is not always. "It was tantamount to a mountain laboring to bring forth a mouse," thundered Boston's Cardinal Gushing after he read our cover on him. Said Producer David Merrick, who will say anything: "Is it true the entire staff of TIME...
Last week, in a brief ceremony at his summer palace in the mountain resort of Bogor, Sukarno calmly swore in one of his old leftist cronies, Suwito Kusumowidagdo, as Ambassador to the U.S. The appointment hardly pleased the military regime, which now claims most of the power in Indonesia, and it raised eyebrows in Washington. The Bung's only answer was a sentence of advice to his new ambassador: "Tell them that Sukarno is still President of Indonesia and that he is the man who sent you there...
...years, Beers and his family lived in a prospector's log cabin in New Year, Mont., a ghost town where, according to one of their songs, "the people are wild and the coyotes are tame." Their only food was wild game that Beers hunted in the mountains. When possible, they stuffed their 150-lb. psaltery, dulcimer, fiddles, banjos, guitars, buckskin drums and camping equipment into and on top of their Volkswagen and toured the mountain towns and country fairs. Then, when the fad for folk singing mushroomed in the late 1950s, everyone was suddenly stuck on the psaltery...
...ever before set foot on the slopes of Vinson-and the laconic announcement from the U.S. Navy base at McMurdo Sound had to qualify as a masterpiece of understatement: "A U.S. climbing party planted the flags of twelve nations on the summit of Vinson Massif, Antarctica's highest mountain...
...Harvard ski team trampled Yale M.I.T. in a cross country-slalom meet Thursday and Friday on Cannon Mountain in Franconia...