Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ernest Oikelmus '54 of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, was killed yesterday on a mountain climbing expedition in the Austrian Alps...
Oikelmus apparently slipped while attempting to scale an icy mountain side and fell 300 feet to his death. His partner on the trip, who survived the fall uninjured, summoned rescuers to the fatally injured student...
...Abelard-Schuman; $3.50), deals with Russian Jews, more urbane, polished and aware than Singer's woebegone Galizianer. Little Rissia grows up in Vladimirsk, a fictional town near Kiev, in the early years of the 20th century. All Russia seems wrapped in a dream, like a mountain village in the instant before the avalanche. While, outside, the wind is rising, at home Rissia is borne along on the immemorial patterns of Jewish tradition in which there is a complex law for every occasion and a cryptic Talmudic proverb for every problem...
...seaboard: there are just too many people for the amount of game, and for safety. This over-population, combined with industrial pollution, threatens to sizably decrease the duck take in Massachusetts. But anyone really wanting to make a life-time hobby of hunting should transfer residence to the Rocky Mountain States...
...disease is invariably fatal, Zigas hurriedly shipped blood and brain specimens from victims to Melbourne's famed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, hoping that the laboratories would find a virus cause for the disease. They found none. Next a pathologist, anthropologist, dietitian, psychiatrist and psychologist hit the mountain trails. They eliminated emotional factors as causes of kuru, found no clue to a physical cause...