Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...River, stretches back 110 miles toward the pluming spray of the 350-ft. Victoria Falls. It is held in check by the towering new Kariba dam, hailed as the greatest piece of masonry in Africa since the days of the Pharaohs. The simple Batonga tribesmen who lived in the valley for centuries had-with difficulty-been evacuated to higher ground (TIME. Dec. 15). Now it was the turn of thousands of animals, in one of the world's richest game sanctuaries, and there were only eleven men and two boats...
Stowe has excellent conditions with three inches of new powder, while Big Bromley has an inch of powder with good to excellent conditions. Sugarbush Valley, Smugglers Notch, and Franconia (Mittersill) also offer premium skiing conditions. At North Conway, Mt. Sunapee, and Wildcat the outlook ranges from good to excellent...
...another purpose: to meet the threat of San Francisco's Chronicle and Examiner, which have recently pushed brisk Sunday circulation sorties into a jealously guarded newspaper preserve. To the custodian of the preserve-which also includes five radio stations and a television station-such poaching is intolerable. Valley residents seem to feel about the same way. In the 18,000-sq.-mi. domain, one of every two doorsteps is daily crossed by a Bee; in Sacramento so many people take the paper that a new carrier boy is handed a route list, not of subscribers, but of those...
Visions and other mystical experiences are part of the regular spiritual diet of the 50,000-odd members of the Native American Church, thanks to what they consider a special gift from God: peyote (pronounced pay-oh-tee), a small cactus growing in the valley of the Rio Grande. The Indians of the Native American Church, 46 tribes in the West and Canada, cut off and dry the cactus tops, then eat the "buttons" in nightlong ceremonies to the accompaniment of sacred fire and chanting. A derivative called mescaline, subject of experiment by psychiatric researchers and mystical dabblers, including Aldous...
FOREIGN BIDDER won a major Tennessee Valley Authority contract to build turbogenerator near Tuscumbia, Ala. Award went to England's C. A. Parsons & Co., Ltd., which bid $12,095,800, v. General Electric's low domestic...