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Word: mountaineers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shared sense of resurgent conservatism. Democrats, for their part, are going somewhat less than all the way with L.B.J. The three races, all pretty much neck and neck, are made all the more uncertain by the frontier-style independence-economic as well as political-that still characterizes Rocky Mountain voting patterns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rockies: ThePrice of The Meal | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...problem of the mountain men has been centuries in the making. Primitive aborigines who wear loincloths and worship ghosts, they are descended from natives who occupied the Indo-Chinese peninsula long before the Chinese-related Vietnamese moved south some 1,700 years ago. The Vietnamese took over the rice-rich coastal plains and the Mekong Valley, pushing the aborigines into the rugged, jungle-thick mountains to the northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Rights for the Mountain Men | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...team switched from folk singing to folk rock because "those mountain songs didn't say anything to the kids in the 22-story apartment house." Songwriter Simon, a short moonfaced lad whose lyrics are studied in a few high school English courses, does not admit to any big message. "We are just creating doubts and raising questions," he explains. Garfunkel, a Columbia University graduate student who sports a Dr. Zorba shock of electrified hair, says: "Pop music is the most vibrant force in music today. It's like dope-so heady, so alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: The New Troubadours | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...share of the flood of investment money pouring into Lebanon from oil-rich Saudi princes and frightened capitalists from socialist Egypt, Syria and Iraq, Bedas became adept at handling skittish clients. Once he even hauled a suitcase of stocks from his vault to the mountain mansion of a suspicious sheik to assure him that his hoard was really intact and safe with Intra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Day the Doors Closed | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...mountain labored to bring it forth. Producer Walter Mirisch, having paid James Michener $600,000 for the screen rights to a 937-page bestseller that has SOLD 4,000,000 copies, backed his investment with a wad that less than a century ago would have bought the island the picture is named after. For $14,000,000 he got Panavision, Color by Deluxe, top-chop talent (Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris), two shrewd scripters (Dalton Trumbo and Daniel Taradash), and a director (George Roy Hill) whose dependability is warm milk to any producer's ulcer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shouts & Muumuus | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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