Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jacobson, 60, had no qualms last month when he joined the nation's 3,500,000 skiers. A recently retired California forester, he aimed to enjoy the outdoors even more than he had as a state employee. But as Jacobson, an advanced skier, whooshed down a slope at Sierra Ski Ranch, he lost control, hit a tree and broke his left elbow, shoulder blade and four ribs, which punctured a lung. Now incapacitated for at least two months, he has become an unhappy statistic-one of this year's roughly 100,000 injured U.S. skiers, more than...
...thing, he has refused to be categorized. Though his reputation was made on tightly-structured dissections of American folk heroes in such films as The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and The Asphalt Jungle, he was not adverse to filming the seemingly frivolous African Queen, accused at the time of having some of the characteristics of Tarzan movies...
...also too willing to compromise in order to make the films he wished to. Kauffmann sententiously stated once that the Huston of Sierra Madre would have burned the script to Moby Dick rather than have Gregory Peck star as Captain Ahab...
...spent $800 million on the plane; last year, when Proxmire made a similar attempt to cut off the flow of money, he was defeated 58 to 22. But for the past eight months, he has been joined by a sizable citizens' army of environmentalists, including members of the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation and the Wilderness Society...
...different sort of instinct for Americana was evident in the Sierra Nevada where 100 years ago, a poetastering highwayman named Black Bart used to rob stagecoaches and leave behind such doggerel...