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Fight for a Capital. In the rugged, snow-covered uplands of northwestern Greece, the Vafiades rebels attacked with 23 battalions, according to government estimates. They seemed to have chosen the government-held town of Konitsa, six miles from the Albanian border, for the capital of their new state. The government...
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 rocky and rugged Blue Ribben trail provides more schussing and less plummeting than last year. As long as the weather favors the south-facing trails, the skiing is smooth and fast, and popularity of the area has instigated plans for another network of trails and tows on the north...
In a statement made after "thorough investigation," the AVC cited Frank Boland, hotel manager, for breach of contract, Mayor Lynch of Cambridge for terming Boland's action "rugged Americanism," the Amvets, who threatened to picket the dinner 400 strong if it were held, and former Cambridge councilman Christopher Carolina for...
The Communists had even cracked south into Central China, after giving the bonfire treatment to long stretches of the vital Lunghai railway. One-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng and some 100,000 men were snug in the rugged Tapieh hills, just northeast of Hankow-a constant menace to the...