Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Night. At 9:30 that night, Veteran Pilot Jorge Guzmán taxied LAMSA's Flight 202 out to the end of the runway and revved up his engines for the nonstop flight to Mexico City, 430 mountain-studded miles to the southeast. Guzmán tested his flaps and rudder, then gave his DC-3 the gun and soared up into the chill, starry night. At 12,000 feet he seemed to feel something wrong. "It didn't feel like anything serious," he later explained, "but there was a vibration somewhere in the back...
...interscholastic tradition. Then the technicians and pressagents turned on the speedup. Last week, having lighted a fire under a pan of tradition, Boston University, with some help from Syracuse University, was preparing to prove that it could be cooked to a turn in no more than the time a mountain distiller would take to turn out a batch of Old Popskull...
...seldom bothers to pursue. The late Gerald H. Thayer once admiringly described the peregrine falcon as a "powerful, wild, majestic, independent bird, living on the choicest of clean carnal food plucked fresh from the air or the surface of the waters; rearing its young in the nooks of dangerous mountain cliffs ... It is the very embodiment of noble rapacity and lonely freedom...
Joseph Dodge of the Pinkham Notch Appalachian Mountain Club directed the rescue...
...seats had been set up. White-bearded, 106-year-old Uncle Harve Sparks, who came over from Bean Fork Hollow, sang a tune in his squeaky voice when the parson introduced him. Tall Scott Partin himself was on hand to reminisce about the old feuding days: "There would be mountain prejudices and it would spread . . . You'd have to go in shootin' and come out loadin...