Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish Jimmy Carter could have read your story on leadership [Aug. 6] aloud on his Sunday TV talk after returning from the mountain, instead of giving us that "peanut butter and jelly" saga...
...dusty truck loaded with guns and radio gear rolls down the Arizona highway south toward Nogales and the Mexican border, Bernell E. ("Bernie") Lawrence points toward a range of mountains. "O.K.," he drawls in a desert-dry voice, "where's the place up there you'd look for lion tracks?" He already knows. "Lions like the backbone of a set of mountains. They'll cross where two canyons meet. For them it's like climbing stairs." Lawrence is 48. For much of his life he tracked and killed mountain lions, bears and coyotes. Then society...
...columnist groaned that the "half-witted" promotion seemed "calculated to appeal to a backward rural electorate in India." Worse still, critics quickly noted that Project Australia, as it is called, has some imported features: the new pep song is borrowed from the old American folk favorite Big Rock Candy Mountain, and the promotional pens being handed out are stamped MADE IN U.S.A. So far the drive has succeeded mostly in inspiring derisive parodies, including one mock slogan that concludes: "Project Australia is a failia...
According to the plot of the $1.8 million film, which will probably air early next year, two young couples who climb mountains on weekends are caught in an avalanche. One of the men is killed, and the three survivors are trapped on a tiny ledge, with nothing but frigid air and a glacier beneath them. An Army helicopter spots them, but when it angles down for a rescue, it bangs into the side of the mountain and crashes to the ice below...
...close-up action, featuring Actors David Janssen, Tony Musante and Madge Sinclair, was shot on a set constructed in the community center gym of Darrington, Wash. But the helicopter scenes were shot 4,200 ft. higher up, on and around the sheer rock face of White Horse Mountain in the northern Cascades. Director Eugene Jones spent six months finding just the right-size ledge, which measured an appropriately uncomfortable...