Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats are either Southern conservatives or machine men from the Northern cities. To reduce Democratic totals to a figure considerably below 240, the Republicans are counting on big victories i the Middle Atlantic region, where the party may gain six House seats and in the 14 Rocky Mountain, Southwest and Far West states, where a net pickup of seven is probable...
...Habit of His. For the Western reader, Snow Country provides a key to the lesser-known regions of Japanese life. Particularly evocative are Kawabata's descriptions of the look of Japan. "The solid, integral shape of the mountain, taking up the whole of the evening landscape there at the end of the plain, was set off in a deep purple against the pale light of the sky." His eye for physical description is sharp. "Her skin, suggesting the newness of a freshly peeled onion or perhaps a lily bulb, was flushed faintly, even to the throat...
...immediacy of the CIA on our doorstep, and I will have a straight answer 20 years hence when I am asked, "Where were you when...?" I am also beginning to understand what the neutrality of scholarship really means in human terms; its euphemistic clarity is like that of a mountain stream: crystalline and shallow at the same time. Sincerely, (signed) Jon Livingston...
...mountain of material was no laugh-in for Associate Editor Ray Kennedy, who wrote the cover story, or for Researcher Pat Gordon, or for Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum. "By the time we worked our way through 6,600 gags," says Kennedy, "we were all punch-line drunk...
...charged with the job pushing Prescott's students to their physical limits is Roy Smith, 28, a robust English-born mountaineer, who has led students on skindiving trips to the Gulf of California, and on explorations of caves in the Grand Canyon, and organized a student mountain-rescue team. This spring he plans a kayak trip down the Colorado River and eventually hopes to lead an archaeological expedition to Peru and an 1,800-mile journey over Canada's Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean. So far the students have taken enthusiastically to the challenge...