Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Territory's towns are crowded, but areas of military construction blend the fever of the '98 gold rush with the Los Angeles boom of the 1920s. Since 1940, the population of dusty, mountain-rimmed Anchorage has swollen from 3,500 to 14,000. Indians, construction workers, farmers, soldiers, flyers, women in dungarees and muddy boots, women in mink coats and platform shoes, jostle on its mile-long main street, crowd its 66 saloons and liquor stores...
...took M. Chevalier and his fellow cave crawlers twelve years to explore the Dent de Crolles, which is riddled with caves like a geological Swiss cheese. Back in the Tertiary period (10 million years ago), says M. Chevalier, the mountain was much taller. Snow water from the youthful peak worked its way into the rock, gnawing wells and tunnels and vast, echoing halls in the soluble limestone. Then, as the peak itself eroded away, the channels gradually lost their water supply and became a "fossil drainage system." Another elaborate system, still rushing with water, now drains through the diminished peak...
Armed with picks, dynamite, ropes and spidery wire ladders, the French speleologists pushed deep into both these geological intestinal tracts. During the German occupation they set out each time with stealth, lest their odd-looking apparatus interest the Gestapo. But whenever they reached the secret innards of the mountain, they knew they were safe from human interference. Little by little they explored the underground labyrinth. At last they discovered that if they enlarged a narrow passage between two tunnels, they could break the Italian depth record. Last week they...
Died. Glenn Allan Millikan, 40, mountain-climbing physiology professor at Vanderbilt University Medical School, son of Nobel Prizewinning Nuclear Physicist Robert A. Millikan; when a rock fell on him while he was scaling a cliff; in Pikesville, Tenn...
...names brigade, but have few financial beefs. Los Angeles' Al Jarvis (KLAC), the favorite in Southern California, takes in $190,000; Arthur Godfrey (Manhattan's WCBS and Washington's WTOP) makes $150,000. Ray Perkins (Denver's KFEL), top jockey in the Rocky Mountain region, isn't bragging about what he makes, but he likes Colorado. Jockey Jack Eigen has the newest gimmick: a wee-hours disc show in the lounge of Manhattan's glossy Copacabana nightclub. The chance to chatter at a microphone brings the nightspot dozens of extra celebrities...