Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week came the shamefaced admission that so-called bourgeois economic laws were right, after all, and the Communists themselves perpetrators of an economic whopper. The Central Committee of the Communist Party, in a two-week meeting at the mountain resort of Kuling, formally conceded that nearly every one of it's 1958 production figures had been false (see box). And the errors were no small ones: if the new figures were to be trusted, all the hardship of the communes had produced only a 35% gain in grain, not the 102% Peking had boasted of, and there...
From his sleeping bag Phillip Bennett, 16, looked up and saw the top of the mountain "cascading down on us." As his parents tumbled from the trailer, a great wind rushed through the canyon, lifting the children, sleeping bags and all, into the air. Irene Bennett saw her husband grab one of the children, hold on to a sapling with his other hand and straighten "like a flag on a flagpole." Then, as he let go, the mountain crashed down around them in an avalanche of rocks, shattered trees and earth. Next day only Irene Bennett and Phillip were found...
Forest rangers, highway patrolmen, Air Force and Yellowstone Park rescuers who poured into the area were appalled by what they found. Near where the Bennetts' camp had been, a huge slide of more than 7,500,000 tons of rock from the side of a 7,600-ft.-mountain had fallen into the canyon, sealing it from wall to wall for three-quarters of a mile and damming the Madison into a natural lake. Between the slide and Hebgen Dam, 260 other campers and fishermen were trapped in the Madison's canyon, dazed and shaken by a night...
Grave Situation. "It's real war here in Samneua," reported Laos' commander in the north, French-trained, 39-year-old Brigadier General Amkha Soukhavong, to a TIME correspondent visiting the general's headquarters in the provincial capital of Samneua town, deep in a mountain valley not far from the fighting. "I've been losing men daily. My head is just about bursting. I've sent telegram after telegram to the Ministry of Defense explaining the gravity of this situation. I've not had any reply yet. I have asked Vientiane repeatedly...
...self-appointed task as an impartial factfinder in the steel strike. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell labored for a painstaking month" under a mountain of steel statistics. Last week, reversing his original plan to keep the statistics only for Administration use, Jim Mitchell decided to share them with the country. Many an anxious reporter and confused citizen hoped to find in the Mitchell report a solution to the five-week-old steel strike. But the report produced more of a sputter than a bang. It bent so far backward to be impartial that each side in the steel dispute immediately...