Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ailing President and the younger (46), unpolished national hero who took on first the Huks, then Quirino's well-entrenched Liberal Party. The islands waited for the end with foreboding as well as with relief. A fear of violence hung over the cities, villages, the obscure jungle and mountain polling places, where some 5,000,000 Filipinos are to cast their votes...
Last week Pianist Kapell. 31. took off in a British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines DC-6 for the long flight home. Eight thousand miles later, letting down for an instrument landing at San Francisco, the big ship clipped a fog-concealed tree, crashed headlong into the side of a mountain ravine. Among the 19 who died in the flames was William Kapell...
...brother's administration building. After exchanging a fraternal kiss of peace with Overseer Tomlinson. he announced that his brother was deposed from office. His proposal: transfer the Tennessee denomination's headquarters to Queens Village, and close down its million-dollar shrine on North Carolina's Burger Mountain, which, thundered the bishop, had become "a place of idolatry." Overseer Tomlinson quietly but firmly disagreed...
Bishop Tomlinson, not surprised, set off for the Burger Mountain shrine with his sledge hammer to dramatize his idolatry charge for the denomination's membership...
Coolly rejecting Winthrop Rockefeller's offer of a divorce settlement (for a reported $5,500,000), Bobo Rockefeller was now rumored to be angling for a separate maintenance only. Meanwhile, Winthrop was still holed up on a mountain in Arkansas, where as a six-month resident he could sue Bobo for divorce...