Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel like I've had a fine lit me. When I go back I'm going to shout from the mountain tops, 'there's hope we can improve our schools,'" says Joseph Segram, an elementary school principal from Mancouver, Washington...
...experiment in President Reagan's $26 billion Star Wars research program last week. Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, it turned out, had given the astronauts the wrong numbers to feed into Discovery's computerized guidance system. Rather than pointing down at a 9,994-ft. mountain, the shuttle turned upward, searching for a nonexistent peak 9,994 nautical miles high...
...Rolf Mengele told it in the Bunte story, the first time he met his father was on a skiing vacation in Switzerland in 1956, when the twelve-year-old boy stayed at a mountain hotel with an affable uncle called Helmut Gregor. Three years later, said Rolf, he discovered that "Uncle Helmut" was actually his father. As the two began to correspond, Rolf told Bunte, the fugitive showed himself to be paternal but far from penitent. "I can never hope that you will understand or sympathize with the course of my life," he wrote Rolf. "But I have...
...story of Leonard Stern sounds like something out of Capitalist Times. Son of the founder of Hartz Mountain Industries, Stern, 47, is the chairman of the world's largest purveyor of pet products. Intense and blunt-spoken, he may be worth as much as $1 billion, but only his accountant knows for sure: Stern's company is privately owned and he rarely talks to reporters. Now he will have trouble avoiding them. Last week Stern bought the Village Voice, the crusading, leftish weekly whose brand of political and cultural journalism shaped a generation of underground newspapers...
...neighbors, Leonard Lake, a burly, self-described "survivalist," seemed like an ordinary if slightly ornery fellow. But after a chance arrest in San Francisco earlier this month, Lake committed suicide while in police custody. When officers drove to his two-acre mountain retreat 140 miles northeast of San Francisco, they discovered what was in effect a death camp. Searchers unearthed the remnants of at least five charred bodies and carried away 50 bags of chopped-up bones and other evidence. Police believe that Lake and his accomplice, 24-year-old Charles Ng (pronounced Ing), may be responsible for killing...