Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three thousand workers toiled three years to build Adolf Hitler's sumptuous Bavarian "Eagle's Nest" atop a mountain at Berchtesgaden. Allied bombers in a few seconds blasted a group of chalets below it (including one of Hitler's and several for smaller Nazis), but left unharmed Hitler's high-perched eyrie, with its wide view of the white-tipped Austrian Alps. Since then verboten territory to Germans, the Berchtesgaden villas have been a red-hot G.I. tourist attraction. Souvenir hawkers have stripped them, selling tiles from Hitler's bathroom to G.I.s at 5 marks...
Last week, on a mountain slope near Vancouver, in buff-naked conclave assembled, 95 nudists held a contest to choose their Royal Family. As Queen they selected Housewife Lyla Olson, 23; as King, Dan ("Tiny") McDonald, a jolly, 210-lb. carpenter. Along with a prince and princess, the regal pair then had their picture taken, discreetly screened by silver trophies and bouquets. Explained one member: "We've nothing to hide...
...holiday rest, Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee arrived at a resort hotel in Jotunheimen, Norway, where 25 fellow countrymen on tour greeted him with a burst of song ("For he's a jolly good fellow"). Later, starting out on a mountain hike, the Prime Minister firmly refused to wear sunglasses. Said he to his wife: "It seems to me that the world looks too gloomy through them...
...Secret of Convict Lake (20th Century-Fox) leads five escaped convicts through a mountain blizzard and into an isolated valley inhabited only by the womenfolk and children of some absent gold prospectors. In this suspenseful setting for a war between the sexes, the women at first have the advantage of guns, mobility and an able, if ailing, leader in Ethel Barrymore. Restricted to a single cabin and kept indoors by the threat of a well-handled rifle, the convicts use the sickness of one of their number, a fire in a stable and the way of a man with...
...after this promising start, Convict Lake turns into a routine western, with Convict Glenn Ford gunning for the man who framed him and being reformed by the love of a good woman (Gene Tierney). When the prospectors come back over the mountain, the stage is set for a good deal of indiscriminate bloodletting during which Ford gets his man and inherits his girl, and one of the convicts, Rapist Richard Hylton, is pitchforked to death by the aroused women...