Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Away out yonder in Missouri, Harry Truman gratefully accepted $6,200 from his Independence neighbors as a contribution toward building his projected $1,750,000 Truman Library, which will house his mountain of personal papers and other Trumaniana. He was especially pleased to contemplate such a shrine...
Citation: "You are a mountain climber ... but the long, slow ascent from war-born confusion in which you have played so significant a role, has shown that man-made obstacles are far more challenging than those raised by nature...
...long arm of a Congressional investigating committee reached up to Vermont last year, involving a large proportion of the citizens of the Green Mountain state in a prolonged controversy over the conduct of a member of the faculty of the state university at Burlingon...
...fortunate enough to hear the 96-year-old William H. Jackson describe in a lecture how he made Colorado's famous Mountain of the Holy Cross picture in 1873 [TIME, May 31]. It's only a minor detail in your story, but I cannot resist pointing out that Mr. Jackson was not fortunate enough to clamber up the iced boulders with "primitive film." Somebody in his party had to haul glass plates up the mountain so that when the time came to make an exposure, all he had to do was to kneel in his tiny darkroom tent...
...Unanswerable Question. Last weekend, exactly ten years after his great decision. President Eisenhower loafed with Mamie at Camp David, his hideout in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain. He visited his nearby farm at Gettysburg. Pa., waded through waist-high wheat, then returned to Camp David for a session with bridge-playing friends. To the D-day anniversary ceremonies in Normandy he sent a copper torch and message, recalling Allied wartime unity (item: "My pleasant association with the outstanding soldier, Marshal Zhukov...