Word: mountaineers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africa it is still a basic means of gathering food. The eagles are the biggest (up to 15 lbs.) and most powerful birds of prey. A brace of trained golden eagles accounted for 32 foxes and 18 wolves in one recent hunting season in the Soviet Union; even rugged mountain sheep and full-grown deer fall to their claws...
...Mountain Folklore. Similar but more modest shadow schools are currently being organized at Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, Pennsylvania and the University of New Mexico. At Princeton, 54 students are enrolled in such courses as "The Contemporary American Novel" and "How to Play the Recorder"; next year student organizers of the program hope to offer a class in ballet...
...Fruit. "We were small-town people who lived in a large, relaxed way," she recalled. After World War I, her father lost his prosperous mills and turpentine stills, moved back to north Georgia to open the state's first private summer camp for young ladies on Old Screamer Mountain outside Clayton...
Ginter is fairly typical. In a 250-mile radius of Prince George, miners are digging for mercury and steel-hardening molybdenum, copper and zinc. At least 125 mining-company whirlybirds are chopping the mountain air in the hunt for minerals. In the past three months alone, 130 mining companies have been formed, mostly to mine the craze for penny dreadfuls on the frantic Vancouver Stock Exchange, where, since trading opens at 6 a.m. to be on schedule with Toronto and New York, it is not uncommon to see tuxedoed partygoers stagger in for a fling of late action...
...Vancouver, an alpine cable car whisks diners to a restaurant 3,700 ft. up the side of Grouse Mountain, overlooking the lights of the busiest harbor on the entire West Coast and a forest of apartment towers on English Bay that give the city the look of a northern Rio. Downtown, the old waterfront is getting a face lift, and the commercial center a cluster of towers, one of which would be ideal for the Bank of British Columbia that Bennett promises...