Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want you to imagine a mountain," Steve said. "I want you to see a mountain in your mind, and then imagine you are standing at the bottom of it." He paused for a minute, and a lovely green mountain floated into the boy's mind and settled in place. "If you look carefully, you can see a cave halfway up the mountain," Steve went on. "But there is a door on the cave. As I count from one to ten, I want you to climb up the mountain to that door. One . . ." In a flash the boy stood in front...
...last time anyone really got excited about the terrain was in the last third of the 19th century, when prospectors discovered what seemed to be rich veins of gold, silver, copper and lead. The bonanza was short-lived, but the mountain's enticing name endured: Mineral King, an area of majestic 12,000-ft. peaks in California's eastern Sierras, 228 miles north of downtown Los Angeles...
...these orders, the sect established a home for girls in Singen, Germany where Bernadette lived after 1962, and a Swiss mountain retreat, where she lived her last days as a virtual prisoner. Under the pressure of "Mother" Kohler's morbid sexual curiosity, justified as "looking into souls," the girl wrote hundreds of pages of grotesque "confessions": the devil visited her several times a day; he had walked beside her, his black fur glistening, at Holy Communion and often made love to her; he had promised her she could have ten sexually diverse husbands and rule the world with Satan...
Barrientos, scarcely beginning to grey at 49, did it with a will and a way that conquered Bolivia's vast complexity of mountain and jungle and reached the isolated campesino, the peasant, who accounts for 72% of the nation's population of 3,800,000. Barrientos sleeps only four hours a night, starts work at 7 a.m. and is incapable of being chairborne for very long. The way to go any place, as far as the President is concerned, is by air; he was trained to fly by the U.S. Air Force, and he reaches for the controls...
...year on everything from coal production to babies. Many of these figures form the basis of the President's annual Economic Report, a key aid to businessmen and Government planners in measuring the nation's economic health. Now a task force of experts has shown how this mountain of figures, plus a number of critical new ones, could be used by social scientists to prepare an annual report that would measure the quality of American life-not how much but how good...