Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long time thereafter, Percy lost himself in his work, took the children with him whenever he traveled out of town on business. In 1950, after an 18-month courtship, he married Loraine Diane Guyer, whom he had met on the ski slopes of Sun Valley. Percy has two children by his second marriage, and his family life strongly reflects his penchant for organization. The Percys live in a sprawling lakefront home in Kenilworth, north of Chicago. There is swimming in the family pool, which is enclosed in a special wing of the house. There are hymn singing ("We like...
...82nd Division's 328th Infantry Regiment, perched atop Hill 223 on the front line at Châtel-Chéhéry. At 6:10 a.m., G Company was ordered to advance two miles and to seize a German-held rail point. Hidden in woods overlooking a valley, a German machine-gun battalion opened up on the company, killed most of its forward ranks...
...electric utility business, which measures its costs in mills and its profits in millions, the American Electric Power Co. has become the biggest producer of all by serving small-town America. Stretching from southwestern Michigan through the rich Ohio Valley to depressed Appalachia, it serves nearly 2,400 towns, only four of which have a population as high as 100,000. A.E.P. has prospered mainly because it has invested wisely in new technology, and thus has been able to drop its rates to one-sixth below the national average for private utilities. This week, in a fallout-proof red brick...
...VALLEY OF BONES, by Anthony Powell. Though it is the first book in Part II of a twelve-volume series, this dryly witty novel about England between the wars is not as labyrinthine as it sounds. Readers who awakened late to Powell's masterful work can now follow the characters chronologically. The earlier books made Marienbad of time; from now on they will follow...
...physical survival. Spiritual survival is another matter. Like Crusoe on his island, the modern man on Mars misses cruelly the company of his kind. And like Crusoe he soon comes across his Friday. How? Go to Mars and find out-it's well worth the trip. Death Valley, where the film was shot, really looks like another world. Actor Mantee, a former allround athlete from U.C.L.A., really looks like an astronaut. And the monkey really looks like a monkey. He looks, in fact, like the first cinemape of modern times who didn't learn to scratch himself...