Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...below the eastbound presidential jet, the flat expanses of the Middle East gave way to the brown plains, the broad desert, the towering, snow-topped mountain ranges of the Indian subcontinent. And as the earth's face changed beneath the speeding plane, something of the old, old world changed imperceptibly too. In Pakistan, Afghanistan and India last week, the shapes and colors and sounds of older centuries mingled and fell around Dwight Eisenhower, as in a vast kaleidoscope, into strange patterns. Each pattern formed a new sensation, each sensation was etched with the faces of the multitudes reaching...
...muleback across dusty roads, on rattletrap chartered buses, walking down steep mountain paths, the Greeks of Cyprus this week practiced what their forebears invented 2,500 years ago. In the first popular elections since 1931, Cyprus got ready to become a self-governing republic in February. Under the Anglo-Greek-Turkish truce to end the island's four-year civil war, the new republic of Cyprus is to have a President elected by the island's Greek community, a Vice President chosen by its smaller Turkish community. The Turkish Cypriots, by acclamation, had already chosen that Vice President...
Nestled in the scenic Palmer Lake mountain district of Colorado is perhaps the most unusual school in the United States. The Freedom School and its high priest, Robert LeFevre, stand lonely and outspoken as the voice of the doctrine of complete personal freedom...
Astride shaggy ponies, a file of 24 Indian border police moved carefully along a mountain valley high in the Himalayas. Late in the afternoon, at a spot 45 miles from the Tibetan frontier, one of the policemen pointed out several wood and dirt bunkers built into the hillside 500 ft. above them. Suddenly, the thin, cold mountain air crackled with the discharge of rifles, hand grenades and 2-in. mortars. Scrambling from their rearing ponies, the Indians unslung their .303 rifles and returned the fire. But they were hopelessly trapped: the barren terrain lacked trees or boulders to give them...
Third Man on the Mountain. Walt Disney's cliff hanger for the kids, who will probably believe that rock climbing is the spectacular cinch it seems to be in this film, and will certainly enjoy the entirely fictional story about a boy who showed the grownups how to climb the Matterhorn...