Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept a voluminous notebook, jotted down things for which he yearned. Among them: Oregon mountain meadow preserves, Edam cheese, a drink made with rum mixed with gunpowder from a .22 short cartridge. He also filled pages with snatches of his philosophy on women and life in general...
...Swamps. By last week the results of Schmiedigen's labors were taking shape along the edge of Port-au-Prince's mountain-girt bay. The exposition with which Haitians hoped to crash the bigtime tourist business would be ready on time. A modern city bloomed on swamps where last year 15,000 Haitians lived in squalor. Between broad, flower-banked avenues stood half a dozen dazzling white official buildings that would serve later as government offices. Pavilions were rising for the U.N., the U.S., nine other countries...
...years ago, at 46, Montana-born Novelist Guthrie, a veteran Kentucky newspaperman (Lexington Leader), proved in his first novel, The Big Sky, that an honest imagination edged with poetic understanding could rescue the trading and trapping mountain men of the West from the fake-heroic fictional mold into which they had long been cast. Now in The Way West, Guthrie has irrevocably separated the covered-wagon pioneers of the 1840s from the busy, lusty book jackets and movie posters which have long held them in box-office thrall. Guthrie's humane and literate feat will have the mass...
...piece of the free and. fabulously fertile territory of Oregon, where a man could get a fresh start and his son could hope to do better than his old man. Evans captained the "On-to-Oregon" pilgrims with common sense, native guts and a powerful assist from ex-Mountain Man Dick Summers, surely the most credible scout in U.S. fiction...
With its rock-climbs at Quincy and its ice-climbs at Mt. Washington, HMC promises to prepare a novice for mountain conditions anywhere in the Alps. Just why a man should want to travel 4000 miles to climb an obscure pinnacle in Liechtenstein, of course, is a question that even a mountaineer couldn't answer.Getting down off a cliff can be just as hard as getting up. FREDERICK L. DUNN '51 (left) demonstrates the easy way--if you don't mind feeling like the heroine of "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight." The technique is called "rapelling." Dunn wraps the rope...