Word: treks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trek. The ascent had been planned with the thoroughness of a commando raid: vast preparation for a brief but crucial hour. The expedition assembled in March at Katmandu, capital of Nepal. Its leader was John Hunt, 43, a grizzled British colonel whose knowledge of mountains (Kangchenjunga, K-36) and men (in World War II, he commanded Pathans, Gurkhas, Dogras and Scots) quickly won respect...
Denim's revolution is a product of the two-day weekend, the trek to the suburbs, and the increasing informality and casualness of U.S. living. Schoolboys started it, in the 19305, with a penchant for the copper-riveted "levis" which San Francisco's famed Levi Strauss began making for gold miners and cowhands back in 1850 (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950). High school girls quickly copied the craze. Spare-time yachtsmen found that salt water gave the deep blue levis a faded look, which became so fashionable that youngsters dumped bleach into the family wash to fade their...
Best-remembered scenes: the historic 1930 Dandi march, in which he led thousands of Indians in a 200-mile trek to the sea to protest the salt tax; his repeated imprisonments; his fasts, which were effective moral protests that fired India's millions and the world; his death at the hands of a Hindu extremist, which put an ironically violent end to a life dedicated to nonviolence...
...nation. It is a revolution which, although still far from overthrowing segregation, amounts to the biggest, most hopeful change in Negro history since Abraham Lincoln, just 90 years ago, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Says Negro Publisher (Ebony, Jet) John H. Johnson: "Every Negro is a Horatio Alger . . . His trek up from slavery is the greatest success story the world has ever known...
Around this molehill of fact, the picture builds a mountain of melodramatic fiction about a weather team headed by hard-boiled Chief Petty Officer Richard Widmark. When Japanese planes bomb out the weather station, Widmark and his men set out for the sea on an 800-mile trek across the desert. On the way, they encounter vicious Japanese, treacherous Chinese camel traders, and lariatswinging nomad tribesmen on Mongol ponies...