Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most powerful atom smasher now scheduled, and certainly the biggest. To build it, engineers will drive a tunnel two miles through the solid rock of a minor mountain near Palo Alto. This rocky housing will keep its radiation from frying innocent bystanders. At the accelerator's business end will be a complex knot of laboratory buildings stuffed with futuristic apparatus...
...explanation might be gleaned from the group's parody of esoteric folk singing. Explaining that some Greenwich Villagers had criticized their repertoire as lacking in "real folk songs," they proceeded to sing "a real field song--Field Holler" ("We found it in a field," Jones said) and "a real mountain song--"Bring Me Back My Brown-Eyed Girl" ("We found it on a mountain...
Bomi & Bong. Americans are exporting 2,000,000 tons of iron ore a year from mines in the Bomi Hills, and the West Germans have a $90 million iron-ore project under way in the Bong Mountains. But even larger than these-larger, in fact, than any other private venture in Africa on which work is already under way-is a $200 million Swedish-American project to mine the Nimba range. To get test-drilling equipment in, men had to head-carry 90 tons of materials up eight miles of mountain trails through dense forests of mahogany and ironwood. When...
...quiet summer resort. Today the town has 5,000 year-round residents, two weekly newspapers, a radio station, and a busy branch of the Bank of America. Even in winter, a parade of chain-clad cars and as many as 30 Greyhound buses a day clank up the mountain road carrying the marks (Harrah refunds $6 of the $7.45 fare). Almost singlehanded, greying Bill Harrah has put the grey-flannel org man on top of a world that once belonged to the flashy lone wolf with fast fingers...
...offer extra space, glamour and luxury touches (gables, palm trees, sliding glass doors), yet sell for about $1,500 less than those of most of his competitors. Last week Long added yet another attraction: with each purchase, he will give a free acre of mountain retreat land near the Kaibab National Forest, 178 miles north of Phoenix, provide a modern cabin...