Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Papa Marzotto did not want his four boys to race. It was raining hard, the mountain roads were slick and treacherous, and there was word of snow in the passes. A veteran road-racer himself before he got too busy with his textile business, 55-year-old Father Marzotto knew about such things. But this race was the Mille Miglia, Italy's most important road contest for stock cars, and the Marzotto brothers were determined to drive their Ferraris in the big international field of 383 drivers, many of them Europe's top professionals. As it turned...
Last week Dr. Carl David Anderson of CalTech showed the American Physical Society at Washington a series of cosmic ray pictures providing real evidence that the new particles really do exist. The pictures were made on California's 11,000-ft. White Mountain by a CalTech team working with a "cloud chamber," which records the tracks of charged particles...
...news was already a year old, but to the Jansen brothers and their slaves, isolated on a mountain-rimmed farm in the wilds of Cape Colony, it was still red-hot. After the embittered slaves had declared themselves free, there was only one course for the outnumbered Jansens to take; round up their cattle, hitch up their oxen, and join the great trek of dispossessed Boers to the savage, wild north. There, though they might be plagued by Matabele warriors, they would be free of British humanitarianism and British rule...
...Mountains, by William O. Douglas. Trout fishing and mountain climbing in the tall Northwest, served up with a garnish of mountain-made philosophy by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice (TIME, April...
This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-documented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose exploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April...