Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laichau had been an important base for rallying the friendly Thai tribesmen in the northwestern wilds, but the French commanders had compelling tactical reasons for giving it up. It was supplied and manned only by air, yet it has a small, poor airstrip, with steep mountain cliffs on both sides. If the Reds brought mortars to the high ground above the airstrip, they could take it under devastating fire...
...jammed-in skyscrapers and canyonlike streets, has defied and amazed its critics with a phenomenal postwar building boom. In the short space of seven years, the big city has grown so fast that if all the new buildings were piled up, they would form a man-made mountain more than twice as tall as Mount Everest; Americans could soar 13 miles high in an elevator...
...others: Idaho Power Co., Pacific Power & Light, Washington Water Power, Mountain States Power & Portland General Electric...
...Conquest of Everest (Countryman Films; United Artists) is a film record, in full color, of the 1953 expedition led by Colonel (now Sir) John Hunt of the British army, which succeeded, where five others had failed, in reaching the top of the world's highest mountain (29,002 ft.). The film has the distinction of being splendidly photographed (by Thomas Stobart and George W. Lowe of the expedition) in conditions where photography is about as easy as gathering edelweiss in an avalanche. It has also been intelligently edited, with a generally well-imagined musical score by British Composer Arthur...
...style, in short, rises to the subject, and the subject makes the film one of the most fascinating ever made. In it, the camera records a passing event and its permanent meaning in a single enormous symbol: man against mountain. Yet the saving grace of the film is its unpretentiousness. The mountaineers move through the snow world in their bright blue suits, not so much like symbols through an allegory, or heroes through a legend, as like common men through a hard day's work at a job they love...