Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shall never be able to fashion him in our own image; his quintessential humanistic compassion, can all be felting a moving anecdote concerning him and the aged Brahms. Mahler and Brahms were walking at Bad Ischl. They came to a bridge and stood silently gazing at the foaming mountain stream. They had been heatedly debating the future of music, and Brahms had had harsh tings to say about the younger generation of musicians. Then they stood fascinated by the sight of water breaking in foam time after time over the stones. Mahler looked up and pointed to the endless procession...
...rebellion begins at Heckletooth Mountain's Logging Unit Three, when Lee Replogle, a 46-year-old Forest Service worker, sees a big bull elk about to gore his pet hound and shoots him in a reflex of instant anger. Elk are out of season, and Replogle has been a dutiful Government employee. But he sees himself as "a punk" and a sucker who has never got anything from a society filled with takers. Near by, the first flames of the fire flicker. Suddenly, he feels a compulsion to prove his manhood by defying the law and packing...
WOODSTOCK, N.Y. Playhouse. Maine is fast becoming everybody's favorite aunt -at least since Charley's-attacking every adventure from fox hunting to mountain climbing with uncompromising verve...
...second largest in the non-Communist world, is felt in every corner of the earth. In Europe, businessmen simultaneously worry about competition from Japanese goods and depend on Japanese-built supertankers to move Mideast oil to them despite the 26-month closing of the Suez Canal. In tiny mountain towns of Western Canada, long-unemployed miners are going back to work to dig the coal needed to fill a new $600 million order from Japanese steel mills. Ideologically impartial, Japanese industrialists trade with Peking and Taiwan, cut timber in Siberia and make 70% of the baseball gloves sold...
...betting on his conviction that the leisure field is bound to grow, Kerkorian has become second only to Billionaire Howard Hughes as a developer in Las Vegas. Kerkorian dislikes being compared with Hughes, saying, "He is a mountain, but I'm a molehill." Still, he outdid Hughes by building a 1,519-room hotel, the International, opposite Hughes' new 476-room Landmark Hotel (TIME, July 11). The International cost Kerkorian $52 million and is designed for family-style leisure amidst pools, lagoons and tennis courts; there is even a special camp for juvenile guests. Kerkorian is also...