Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College Week" is the climax of the year's activities of the IOCA, in which representatives of most of the New England and Middle Atlantic college outing clubs meet at Lake Coldon, in the heart of the Adirondacks, for a week of camping and mountain climbing. This is an informal affair with each member supplying his own equipment food, and transportation...
...students expected at this year's "College Week," over half are girls, a fact which makes even mountain climbing interesting to some of the more slothful members. These girls, however, can take care of themselves. Some of them carry a 60 pound pack up a 5000 foot mountain or bike 90 miles in a day. Incidentally, a young couple accompanies the group to act as chaperones...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week left the heat and din of Nanking for breezeswept Kuling, the mountain resort which used to be China's prewar summer capital. There he shed his uniform for a comfortable gown and strolled about the clean-swept, maple-shaded streets. Nevertheless, the political temperature continued to rise and the Government's discomfiture increased...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain examined by a strange trio of writers: Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend); Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens) and PM's Max Lerner...
...madrigal group worked over Purcells 17th-Century masque opera, King Arthur. Somewhere in a clump of birch a lone flutist piped the theme of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Down by the shores of inky Lake Mahkeenac, a brass section blared Moussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain, and inside the lakeside clubhouse 23-year-old Composer Lukas Foss, a Koussevitzky favorite, beat out a frenzied boogie-woogie...