Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in paperback, the Alexandria Quartet, Anthony Powell's The Music of Time series, Gide's Journals and all of C. P. Snow are apt to stir poolside suspicion. Anyone who takes his summer reading seriously must weather such risks-or else tuck his Doctor Zhivago inside Doctor No. The lowbrow in search of status will reverse the process and hide Sexus under, say, Koestler's The Act of Creation. The camouflage problem is more complicated for the compulsive careerist, who always gets "some good new books" before he leaves on vacation. But how can he bury...
Appropriately, he dubbed it High Camp. Nestled on a plateau just under 8,960-ft. Squaw Peak, the cabaret commands a heady view of the still snow-blotched peak above and Lake Tahoe below. Just getting there is half the fun. On the valley floor, couples are guided into four-seater gondolas by an attendant. After skimming through a notch in a granite cliff and floating over forests of white pine and ponderosa, they bump to a stop amidst the sound of music echoing about the uppermost peaks...
...Reader Campbell's error. Though admittedly higher than Mauna Kea (13,825 ft.), Idenburg & Co. are only peaks in the Snow Mountains ranges. Mauna Kea is a full-fledged mountain...
Shortly before noon on March 1, 1964, a four-engine Constellation operated by California's Paradise Airlines smashed into a snow-covered mountainside near Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border. All 85 aboard were killed. Now, after a 16-month investigation of the crash, the Civil Aeronautics Board has released a report finding that if the plane had been flying only 300 ft. higher or 300 yds. to the right, the disaster might have been averted. According to the CAB, the crash was caused by pilot error, sloppy ground maintenance, faulty equipment-and the falsification of a weather...
...Tahoe Valley Airport. According to the CAB, Paradise's Tahoe station manager, presumably unwilling to turn away a lucrative flight, had changed an official weather report, causing Captain Norris to believe that thin, broken clouds existed in the Tahoe area, where, in fact, there were heavy clouds, snow showers and icing conditions...