Word: mountainous
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American officials do, however, attempt to manage the Colorado, and in the process have been forced to trigger much of the flooding. Engineers at the Glen Canyon and Parker dams have had to open their floodgates wider than ever before. Last winter's Rocky Mountain snowpack was up to three times its usual thickness, and since Memorial Day it has been melting unusually fast. Southwesterners blame Bureau of Reclamation dam managers for not releasing more of the runoff earlier. Says William Claypool of Needles, Calif.: "Anyone over the age of eight who watched TV this winter should have known...
Andrew D. Metz '82, who majored in Physics at Harvard and who had planned to begin work as a nuclear researcher at MIT this week, died Sunday--his 22nd birthday--while mountain-climbing in the Adirondacks...
...family has asked that contributions, in lieu of flowers, be sent to the Adirondack Mountain Club, at 172 Ridge St., Glen Falls, N.Y. 12801, (Attention; Kim), towards a memorial plaque to be placed at the site of the accident which took Metz's life...
...fast turnabout in the contras' fortunes is occurring along much of the border between Honduras and Nicaragua. The F.D.N.'s field commanders admit that they have withdrawn all their forward troops to the rear mountain zones. Equally unmistakable is the new mood that has replaced the euphoria of early spring. The F.D.N.'s political and military leaders are divided among themselves. "Our people feel we are fighting a much more powerful enemy than we ever expected," admits a worried F.D.N. leader. "They have trucks and planes and are even bringing vans of Pepsi-Cola to the front...
With its heady discussions in the music tent, on flowery meadows, along mountain walks, on riverside picnics and in the bar of the Jerome Hotel, the conference has become an institution, a sort of Academy. Students and young practitioners come with their cameras and tape recorders, spouses and babies; besides sitting at the feet of such design luminaries as Saul Bass, Ivan Chermayeff, Niels Diffrient, Milton Glaser and George Nelson, they turn the Academy into a happening, flying kites, making music of all kinds and building weird experimental structures. At an altitude of 8,000 ft., some of the proceedings...