Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season. At the Glendale proving ground, architects, engineers and "imagineers" are developing an addition to his "Magic Kingdom" (Disneyland) that will cost more than the entire original $17 million investment. Also in the works are plans for 1) Mineral King, in California's High Sierra, which, upon opening in 1976, will become one of the world's largest ski centers, and 2) Disney World, a 43-sq.-mi. vacation empire in central Florida that will be almost 170 times as big as Disneyland...
...Jean-Claude Killy, 22: the men's giant slalom in the international High Sierra ski cup races; at Heavenly Valley, Calif. Beaten by his French teammate, Georges Maudit, in another giant slalom race the day before, Killy zipped through the 57 gates in 1 min. 32 sec. to beat Maudit by 1 sec. Another French skier, Leo LaCroix, finished third, and the top American, California's Jimmy Heuga, wound up fourth...
...list includes such films as Beat the Devil, Citizen Kane, Birth of a Nation, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Duck Soup...
When I joined the Peace Corps, I was classified as a "generalist." As a man who could do absolutely nothing of a practical nature, I was slightly amazed when I met my fellow trainees for the Peace Corps "R.C.A." program in Sierra Leone thought that I would be working with computers or television sets before I learned the initials meant ("rural community action")--Carpenters, masons, geologists, an people you read about in books, unreal people, people who can (shudder) do things...
...Sierra Leone, I was given a road project in Bombali district. I Kriolized (after Krio, the Englishderived lingua franca of the country) my technical words--amma, c'ment, 'spana--dropped them expertly and waited for cheers and applause from my workers. Meanwhile, I read something called, "How to Build a Bridge," and I built one (I'm still laughing...