Word: mountaintop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With its crenelated walls and towers, San Marino perches on a mountaintop in northern Italy like some displaced relic of the Middle Ages. The world's oldest and smallest (23 square miles) republic, it was reputedly founded around A.D. 300 by Saint Marinus of Dalmatia as a refuge for persecuted Christians, has survived as a curious, isolated island in time amidst Italy's sweeping political tides. But last week the harsh forces of the 20th century clashed noisily in its cobbled streets...
...Mountaintop Threats. The bare-bosomed Blue Bell girls are safe from the sunburn of the Sahara this year: getting the oil from Hassi Messaoud through the rebel country to the Mediterranean seaboard is practically impossible. In the desert, where no man can hide from the hovering helicopter, there is no trouble from the rebel fellagha, but the wild Atlas Mountains, which bar all routes northward from the oilfield, shelter some of the toughest Moslem rebel gangs. On the final 150-mile stretch of the railroad from Oran there have been continuous attacks by rebels for a year. In one night...
...five-megaton H-bomb fell on Union Station," wreaking "total destruction within three miles," but by that time, reported civil defense officials, the President was "well out of danger" at a secrecy-shrouded mountaintop "Emergency White House" (one of several alternate command posts) less than 200 miles away. There, with his staff, he settled down to direct dry-run command operations under a simulated "unlimited state of emergency." One by one, the bulletins flashed in over the closed-circuit emergency communications system: enemy aircraft were striking south from Alaska and Canada; 100 U.S. cities were blasted in atomic attack. Adding...
...here, and Los Angeles has three good hotels, 27 churches and 350 telephone subscribers." But the boom grew voracious. Real estate was traded over and over in a day; men sold their places in the restive land-office queues, joined the end of the line to begin buying again. Mountaintop lots made paper millionaires out of penniless speculators. Before Harrison Otis could slow the tempo, it was too late: in 1888 the boom cracked open like an avalanche. Crowds by the thousands streamed for the trains, and the Times recorded the news of suicides and scandals...
Five & Dime Scion Lance Reventlow, son of Barbara Hutton and just turned 21, proved himself one of the few contemporary playboys without self-delusions. Announcing that he will soon descend from his new mountaintop eyrie in Beverly Hills to go to Italy and some sports-car racing, well-heeled Driver Reventlow forthrightly justified his indolence: "I guess you might say I'm a playboy. But I like what I'm doing, and I'm never bored like so many people are who work all the time...