Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about it. Suddenly the transport began to smoke, rolled over on its side, plunged into a wooded hillside. The two Americans started for the scene of the crash. They scrambled up granite slopes past a Yugoslav officer who paid no attention to them. But when they started down the mountain after a futile search for the wreck, the Yugoslavs had set up a machine gun at a roadblock, carefully checked their identification...
...Penn Tuttle, Jr. '40, captain of the undefeated 1939 cross country team, died last weekend while mountain climbing in the high Sierras near Visalia, California...
There is no mountain worthy of the name within hundreds of miles, but the townsfolk of New Glarus, Wis. (pop. 1,068) like to get out and yodel. They also blow ten-foot Alphorns made from fir logs, build houses with high roofs typical of the Swiss Alps, talk a Schweizer-deutsch patois, hang sweet-chiming Swiss bells around the necks of their innumerable brown Swiss cows, and produce vast quantities of Swiss cheese and Swiss lace...
With this new drawing card, Mount Wilson will probably get more visitors than ever before. But 65-year-old Albert Childs hopes not to be there to greet them. After 24 years on his mountain (with only two ten-day vacations), he thinks it is time "to go down off the mountain and see something of the world." Then he wants to settle down to his favorite hobby -astronomy...
...Named for Benjamin Davis Wilson, a winegrower who blazed a trail up the 5,710-foot mountain in 1864 in search of lumber for wine casks...