Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreigners, a man and his wife, traveled out of ancient Corinth one day last month along the twisting roads that lead toward the rugged interior of the Peloponnesian peninsula. In a tranquil mountain valley, they came to the village of Kalavryta. When the villagers learned that the visitors were Germans, there were sullen mutterings in the village square. A white-haired woman in widow's weeds glared at the man. "He is one of them," she said. "He must...
...established adventures have their protocol, their professional techniques. Mountain climbers, big-game hunters and explorers nowadays set out only after supplying themselves with the most up-to-date maps, guides and gear. But the adventure of No Picnic on Mount Kenya was strictly amateur. It did not seek to prove any theories about man or the universe; it was merely a gesture of private spunk...
Pretending to be a work party, the three men walked out of camp and made their way through the "human danger zone" (natives and British search parties) toward the base of the mountain. Loaded down with heavy rucksacks, unarmed except for crude ice axes, without a map, they then invaded the "animal danger zone" (lions, leopards) and began to follow a stream which they hoped had its source high on Mount Kenya...
Died. Frank Gimmons Leavitt, 62, bewhiskered, massive (5 ft. 11 in., 317 lbs.) "Man Mountain Dean" of U.S. wrestling; of a heart attack; in Norcross...
...Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin. Intensely written novel of life in Harlem (TIME...