Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Longenecker was not an inexperienced climber. Further, it is reasonable to believe that Parysko ran by three emergency telephones because he knew that they connected only with the Appalachian Mountain Club camp at the base of the mountain, staffed during normal ski hours. He passed the telephones at night. We cannot say if he knew, or discovered, that the Teuckerman Ravine Shelter was unoccupied. Certainly he passed the two first aid caches simply because it was not aid for himself he sought, but help for his snow-buried companion...
...accept or reject him as Italy's new Premier. In the dry, precise style of an economics professor (which he once was), 46-year-old Amintore Fanfani outlined a substantial program: more government housing, another 65,000 schoolrooms, stone-clearing projects in Sardinia and reforestation in the mountain districts, cheaper loans for farmers, wage boosts for workers, better tax enforcement. These measures reflected his leanings to the liberal wing of his Christian Democratic Party. But he also wanted his anti-Communism fully understood: he would take steps against the massive Communist propaganda machinery, which "poisons the public spirit every...
...main features of President Eisenhower's plan for improving the nation's health (TIME, Jan. 25) is more voluntary health insurance. Last week a man with a mountain of figures, based on a sampling survey of U.S. families, told the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce how much of the job voluntary insurance is now doing...
...housewives who yearned to appear with a symphony orchestra got their wish when one directed the Denver Symphony (in Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King) and the other sang (Arditi's Il Bacio) with the orchestra accompanying...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition that fought foot by foot to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...