Word: mountains
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...While he was majority leader in 1978, Senator Robert Byrd (who started his political career by playing fiddle on West Virginia street corners) recorded Mountain Fiddler, an album of "classic fiddle tunes of the old frontier, frolic tunes and gospel...
INAUGURATED. CHUCK BURRIS, 46, first African-American mayor of Stone Mountain, Ga., longtime headquarters of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
Michael set off down the mountain with the camera and the small, soft plastic football. The run was about 150 ft. wide at the top and well-groomed but quickly narrowed as the trees closed in on either side. After the first goal Michael handed the camera off to a friend. "He skis off, he turns around to get a pass, he slams into a tree head first, he falls down unconscious," reports Hay, who says he was a few feet away. He heard someone say into a walkie-talkie, "Max, Max, it's an emergency! Ski patrol, ski patrol...
...help," said Michael Ferrara, a senior paramedic and the first member of the ski patrol to reach Kennedy. "Very quickly we realized there was one very injured man." He took over the CPR and helped fit Kennedy with a cervical collar. The ski patrol brought him down the mountain on a toboggan, covered in a yellow blanket. The Rev. Lawrence Solan administered last rites at Aspen Valley hospital and presided over communion for 15 family members. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 5:50 p.m.; the official cause of death was "massive head and neck trauma," and deputy coroner Tom Walsh...
...turbulence, which occurs when there is scarcely a puff of cloud in a pilot's path. CAT can be caused by a lot of things, including a change in direction of the jet stream, a clash of opposing air masses or a swirl of wind rising off a mountain. Not only is the phenomenon invisible, both to the eye and to radar, but it can also be highly localized, lurking in a patch of sky as small as 1,000 ft. across. When CAT hits, says retired United Airlines captain Andy D. Yates Jr., it is "like an anvil...