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Peking was already more than 2,000 years old when one of its invading conquerors decided to make it a place of splendor. The Mongol Emperor Kublai, grandson of Genghis Khan, ordered the building of Green Mount, a hill that was dotted with evergreens brought from far and wide by imperial elephants, paved with a layer of green copper ore and topped by a green pavilion. Marco Polo reported in wonderment: "The great Khan caused all this to be made for the comfort of his spirit...
...North Sea flowed around Kublai's Green Mount (also called the Hill of Ten Thousand Years), converted it into an island serenely adorned by the White Pagoda, the Pavilion of Perpetual Southern Melodies, the Tower of Felicitous Skies, Wisdom's Fragrant Terrace...
...rescue party from Lake Louise struggled up Mount Temple, worked all night to find the nine victims. Only Townsend Balis had been killed instantly; four had died slowly of exposure. Two were found dead in a snowbank. Two others, still alive, were brought safely down the mountain. Said Dr. P. G. Costigan, park medical officer: "If the boys had even been dressed in suitably warm clothing, probably most of them could have come out all right...
...nearly nine years as editor of the Mount Dora (Fla.) weekly Topic, Mabel Norris Reese has drawn blood from the Ku Klux Klan and race-baiting Bryant Bowles, and earned herself a clutch of journalism awards and scores of enemies. Although the K.K.K. burned a cross on her lawn and poisoned her dog, Editor Reese was not intimidated. She continued to play stories on the five children of Orange Picker Allan Platt (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954) who were ousted from a white school in Mount Dora on the ground that they were Negroes, although they claimed to be of Irish...
...latest contribution to American culture, The $64,000 Question, was conceived one day last January in the library of his Manhattan apartment, when he sat down at his desk determined not to get up until he had thought of a "great" idea. His mind turned toward quiz shows and Mount Everest, and he thought that the Everest of quiz shows would be one with increasingly tough peaks to scale. Then he wondered what he could give as a commensurate reward to anyone who scaled the highest peak. He remembered an old giveaway show, Take It or Leave It, later known...