Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to maintain reader interest, Amory uses his imagination to make Copper City a fascinating place. It seems the town is built on the side of a mountain. Everyone lives on different levels of one street which winds up the mountain, and all the buildings slip down the mountainside a few feet every year. (The Episcopal Church has just crossed the road in its descent.) The colorful stories Mitch tells about this town and a fabulous group of Western characters are always interesting...
Accompanied by fierce-looking Fulani horsemen and hundreds of the Fon's loinclothed subjects, the U.N. emissaries had crossed formidable rivers, climbed 3,000 feet up slippery mountain paths. A bit footsore, they finally reached the Fon's tiny city of elaborately decorated houses and well-paved courtyards. Reported the mission, of the Fon: "Probably more than 80 years of age [he himself claims to be more than 100), he is now in a stage when he can take a lenient view of this interference in what he might regard as his private affairs." But he pointed...
Married. Jean Stafford, 34, novelist (Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion) ; and Oliver Jensen, 35, LIFE staff writer; both for the second time (her first husband was Poet Robert Lowell); in Manhattan...
...Catskill Mountain treeland, which is known as the Black Rock Forest, will be managed by Hugh M. Raup, director of the Harvard Forest in Petersham, and will be used for purposes of forestry experimentation under the department of Economics...
When members of Bogotá's Tolima colony recently brought the bambuco to the capital, instructors had to show the city folk how the bambuco was done. But that was all that was needed. By last week city slickers whistled Pescador, Guabina Chiquinquirena and other mountain favorites as if they had known them all their lives...