Word: mountaintop
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...final decision, it was suggested amid some hilarity at Lindsay's press conference, came on a Utah mountaintop. Vacationing with his wife earlier this month, he telephoned Deputy Mayor Richard Aurelio from a riding stable and, the story goes, dictated the substance of his announcement. Actually, a very similar draft of the speech had been prepared by his staff weeks earlier...
...some spectral dimension between Peru and Bolivia (at the bottom of Lake Titicaca, perhaps). Hood is a seasoned though disillusioned diplomat from J.F.K.'s Alliance for Progress days who disagrees with his new President's policies but must obey orders. When Santa Claran rebels secure a mountaintop where their Chinese supporters intend to plant missiles aimed at the U.S., Hood is off on the last joust of his career...
...markers that had been planted on the summit years ago by a U.S. Army team. Behind the bearers trudged 4,000 other natives from New Guinea's jungled East Sepik district, reciting the Roman Catholic rosary and clutching handfuls of precious mud that they had scooped from the mountaintop...
...months since Mary Ann had been bulldozed out of a 4,000-ft. mountaintop, it had taken very few mortars and had never even been probed on the ground. On the night of the attack, SP/4 Dennis Schulte recalled, "It was quiet, as always. I had seen nothing and expected nothing. I went over to the TOC (Tactical Operations Center) and talked with some friends until about 2:30 a.m. We talked about going home-as usual...
...Administration sent a carefully selected group of hawkish Senators, Congressmen and Governors off on a quickie tour of battlefields and briefings in South Viet Nam and Cambodia. The 13-man mission used seven helicopters to drop in on a muddy mountaintop fire-support base six miles inside Cambodia. They had been preceded by three barbers, who clipped the shaggy locks of G.I.s outfitted in fresh fatigues for the impending visit. Artillery pieces were moved to drier ground, a pathway and railing were constructed to facilitate inspection of an enemy arms cache and enclosures were erected around open-air latrines...