Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after dawn of the third day, the horde thundered north again on the first of two laps, 261 miles over high mountain passes and through cloudswept valleys to Leon. Just before pulling out, Felice Bonetto, leading on total elapsed time, puffed a cigarette and jauntily observed: "I'll be driving in this race until I die." He died two hours later with a broken neck, when his Lancia skidded into a lamppost in the narrow-laned town of Silao. Italy's Humberto Maglioli, in a Ferrari, roared past Bonetto's body (still strapped to the driver...
...Vikings, a drinking society, meets at a Sunset Strip restaurant, numbers among its members Victor Borge, Lauritz Melchior, Michael Wilding. The Vikings wear horned helmets and bearskin robes, and on special occasions blow an ancient Bavarian mountain horn. Their motto: "Work is the ruin of the drinking classes...
...year 1927 is recorded in literary history as the year of Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry. Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain and Willa Gather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, among other notable books, but for fans of Mazo de la Roche, the real importance of 1927 is that it saw the first of her Jalna novels. Now, 15 Jalna novels later, Author de la Roche has produced another volume in her indefatigable chronicle of the Whiteoak family of Ontario...
...meet this danger, the Indian army put a 190-man mission into Nepal, and built the first military road from India to Katmandu. The first dusty Indian jeep sped along this road last week, a symbol of India's belated concern for her great mountain frontier...
...program was the first in a series planned by the University of Utah's Medical School for the postgraduate education of doctors already in practice. Closed-circuit TV, which has been used in connection with medical conventions (TIME, June 25, 1951), was impracticable for the mountain states because there is no north-south coaxial cable or microwave to connect the chief cities of the area. Instead, Utah doctors decided to take up KDYL's offer of an early morning hour, when nearly every doctor can watch and the general public is not likely to tune...