Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountains covered with snow, aspen, blue spruce and Douglas fir; in the craggy heights roamed elk, bear and mountain sheep. The boys could tell it was no place for softies as they started trudging up the steep, three-mile road to a campsite high above the Crystal River Valley. Under the deep blue sky waited tents, blazing alpine meadows and leathery-faced instructors. "I hope you will enjoy your stay here," declared one instructor tersely, "but enjoyment will be a byproduct...
...exhibitions, that Europeans have always had a common culture. The exhibitions have ranged from rococo to Romanesque to the romantic, and each year a different city has played host. In a sense, the Vienna show -"European Art Around 1400"-is the most complex, for the period forms a cultural valley between the spiritual peak of the Gothic cathedral and the humanism of the later Renaissance. Yet the council has achieved a notable success: for all its diverse elements, the art of Europe around 1400 had an undeniable unity...
...court settlement of eleven suits brought against it by Government agencies that claimed to have been overcharged on G.E. equipment as a result of the conspiracy. All but $1,000,000 of the payment-the biggest antitrust settlement in history-will go to the Tennessee Valley Authority, which first blew the whistle on G.E. and 28 other electrical companies when it became suspicious of identical bids on heavy equipment...
...tramway's cars (one going in each direction) will hold 80 passengers, who might not want to risk a ski run down San Jacinto's craggy sides, but can at least enjoy a 100-mile view of the valley...
...dailies, the tendency today is to form into an "intercity" paper?a single daily replacing two or more in neighboring towns. Today there are more than 70 such papers, some of them with sizable circulations: the Herald-News, serving Passaic and Clifton, N.J. (circ. 74,227); the San Gabriel Valley (Calif.) Tribune in West Covina spreads its 52,152 circulation over seven neighboring towns...