Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absurd phony mustache, said: "Welcome, Marlon Brando." The actor had brought along a pretty Eurasian girl, who said her name was Timy Van Nga; occupation: student. In a U-drive-it Volkswagen, the two demonstrated the close relationship between love and Haiti, thrill-riding the island's mountain curves, dancing to voodoo drums at the nightclub Bacoulou. By week's end, when the lady and Brando had been off together for six days, U.S. gossip mills still knew nothing about it. But an understudy was filling the star role in Broadway's The World of Suzie Wong...
...American children now under 18 will go to college,-if parental ambitions are realized. The expectation is highest in the mountain states (80%), lowest in New England...
Crack in the Ridge. Lament's theory of the earth started taking shape several years ago when electronic depth-measuring equipment spotted a peculiar crack in the top of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the strange underwater mountain range that snakes down the center of the North and South Atlantic. Other explorations proved that the crack followed the ridge's top faithfully from north to south...
Distribution Points. In Saint Simeon, Canada, which gets its water supply from a small mountain lake, housewives complained that brook trout were coming out of their faucets...
...Anderson took the G.I. bill through North Carolina College ('47), went on to study at Columbia University and the Sorbonne, concentrating on 18th century German metaphysics. Then he set out to travel and write. Perhaps it is this kind of distance that removes Lover Man from the mountain of angry-Negro stories. Anderson is not mad at anyone. He is fascinated by the South, by what he has seen, and by what he has heard, and he manages to re-create that fascination for his reader...