Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algeria, which Frenchmen fondly imagine they have made a part of metropolitan France by simple administrative fiat, rebels emerged from their Aures mountain stronghold, went marauding through the Constantine countryside in bands of 80 to 100, cutting telegraph lines, tearing up railroad tracks, and on three occasions boldly attacking police and army patrols. Hopping about the troubled area in a helicopter, Algeria's Governor General Jacques Soustelle admitted: "The situation is serious." All week long in Paris, Premier Faure conferred worriedly amidst a din of newspaper alarm. For Morocco and Algeria he could offer only promises for the future...
Europe used to spend its summers displaying castles, cathedrals, ruins and mountain vistas. Nowadays, sightseeing is being heavily supplemented by music-hearing. From metropolis to hamlet the cry echoes: "Let's start a festival!" One happy hamlet that has followed the call is Germany's Bad Bertrich (pop. 800), nestled on a hillside 45 miles from Coblenz, near the Moselle river. It is moderately well known for its waters (good for stomach, gall bladder and liver disorders) and its 18th century castle, onetime residence of Prince-Bishop Clement Wenceslaus. Only a few years ago, tourists in Bad Bertrich...
...Growing Mountain. In the past, the U.S. has been able to sell some of its weak-gluten surpluses abroad, where much bread was made by hand. Now European bakers, rapidly mechanizing their industry, are turning to Canada and the Argentine for the strong-gluten wheat they need...
...case, unless the U.S. begins raising more strong-gluten wheat, it looks as if the nation will be stuck with a growing mountain of wheat that it will have little...
Chief Crazy Horse (Universal-International) pays a Technicolor installment on Hollywood's mountain of debt to the American Indian: after years of getting clobbered, the redskins this time win three battles in a row over the U.S. cavalry. What's more, the embattled Sioux are given Victor Mature as their peerless leader, but sad to say, when silhouetted against the sky in war paint and feathers, Mature looks more like an aggrieved turtle than an eagle of the plains...