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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mount Baldy and the Lake Arrowhead region have long been popular ski spots for Los Angeles greased hickory experts, but even the best of these can't match grades or open slopes with northern California's Lake Tahoe...
California's rugged, sequoia-covered mountain-sides are not, however, entirely characteristic of Western skiing. The treeless walls of the Sugar Bowl near Norden, Nevada, have stamped a far brighter mark on U.S. skiing annals than even the fabled San Gorgonio region, predicted by many ski experts to be among the most fruitful prospects for American sportsmen...
...flowers grow in Sains-en-Gohelle. The town, the houses and the people are grey. The miners who dig coal from the earth seem to bring some of the earth's blackness and dourness with them when they go home from the pit heads. Through this region, in the Pas-de-Calais, the wallowing armies of World War I swayed back & forth in the mud, and all around are historic names: Arras, Lens, Cambrai, Douai, Vimy Ridge. No flowers grow in Sains, but in season they can be picked from the fields and hedgerows outside, and there are usually...
Peru's coast is a brown billowing desert,* broken here & there by tiny green valleys which poorly support half the country's population. The towering Andes effectively bar the transportation of foodstuffs from the fertile eastern region. Because of the chronic food shortage, the Ministry of Agriculture is the hottest seat in the Peruvian cabinet. In January, the Apristas gladly turned the post over to a chubby, genial landowner named Pedro Venture, later denounced him for failing to provide food for the people. Replied Venture: "I cannot offer you miracles...
According to Drs. Harry J. McCann and Russell S. Fisher, who conducted the post-mortem, the .22 calibre bullet entered the left side of the brunette's head, and failed to penetrate the orbital region of the brain. Hence they concluded that the Vassar honors graduate would have been able to stagger 50 feet from the place where she actually discharged the weapon...