Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey "a creature of Jewish subsidy." Though his appeal today is only to a lunatic fringe, he still makes a handsome living from virulent pamphleteering and donations to his rabid, California-based Christian Nationalist Crusade. By way of apostrophizing his movement, Smith, 68, has just erected a $250,000 snow-white statue of Jesus Christ atop 1,500-ft. Magnetic Mountain near the Arkansas spa community of Eureka Springs...
...hills and gullies. At the Turon River Valley they found a pocket of prospectors living in ancient humpies-huts whose name derives from the aboriginal oompi plus a cockney h-and one old recluse dwelling in the straight-up-and-down cliffs of the Macquarie River. In the southern snow fields of the Crackenback Range around Thredbo, Smiggin Holes and Jindabyne, pretty, blue-eyed Mrs. Yvonne Slypen, 30, slipped about on skis counting the locals-a job complicated by an influx of 2,000 visitors for the Giant Slalom ski championships in Perisher Valley...
British Author-Physicist C. P. Snow; John Walker, Director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington; Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; Henry Ford II. While, in its beginning days in book publishing, Time Inc. brought out volumes that were in large measure derived from articles that had appeared in the magazines, the texts and nearly all of the photographs in all TIME-LIFE BOOKS titles...
...Snow on the Volcano. Nothing in Giap's experience or theoretical manual of strategy had prepared him for the quality or magnitude of the U.S. intervention. Though Vo, his family name, means "force," and Giap, his given name, means "armor," the architect of North Viet Nam's army was born near the city of Vinh, the son of a bourgeois landowning family that had fallen into penury. By the time he was 14, he was a member of a clandestine, anti-French sect; four years later the French clapped him in jail for political agitation. It proved...
...lecturer in French history who "could step to a blackboard and draw in the most minute detail every battle plan of Napoleon," one of his former students recalls. A passionate ascetic who could veer abruptly from violent emotion to icy control, he was early dubbed "The volcano and the snow" by his associates. "We were all intrigued," says one, "by his passion for Napoleon and the French Revolution. And we used to tease him when he railed against the French, by asking 'Are you sure you don't want to be Napoleon?' " Giap...