Word: mountaintop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CUBA Rebel Report Deep in a dripping mountaintop forest, two men huddled on the ground at sunup one day last week, talking in guarded whispers. One of the men was Fidel Castro, 30, the strapping, bearded leader of the never-say-die band of anti-Batista rebels who strike and run from hideouts in eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra range (TIME, Feb. 25 et ante). The other was Herbert Matthews, 57, veteran war reporter (Ethiopia, Spain, Italy) of the New York Times. In a series of three articles this week, Herb Matthews, now a Times editorial writer, told...
Thus last week in Colorado these words, spoken by ex-Governor Dan Thornton, wealthy rancher and onetime farmboy, shoved Colorado's senatorial race right off its mile-high mountaintop and down into the barnyard. As sole Republican candidate for the vacated Senate seat of ailing Eugene D. Millikin, who is retiring, the popular Thornton will have to go to the polls against one of two Democratic primary candidates: former Congressman John Carroll or Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. Thornton had decided by last week that Brannan was the man to beat...
...last week unveiled a colossal monument, carved from a mountaintop and scooped out of the surrounding sea, to its determination to ring Communist China with bases. Sixty miles northwest of Manila, overlooking the calm blue wa ters of Bataan's Subic Bay, the U.S. flag was raised over land that only five years ago was an impenetrable mixture of mountain, swamp and jungle, swarming with pythons. The new Cubi Point Naval Air Station is the Navy's largest air station in Asia, and a major addition to SEATO's chain of defense...
...blizzard swept over the peak of Vermont's Mount Mansfield one day last week, a woman in a wheelchair pulled the veil from a two-ton marble sculpture fashioned like a huge dime. With the dedication of the mountaintop sculpture, a monument to the victims of the U.S.'s first polio epidemic,* the 1956 March of Dimes opened. There was the usual fanfare-the sort that has made Americans contribute more than three billion dimes since the drive began in 1938. But the 1956 kickoff was different: for the first time, the year was beginning with the certain...
...conference. From the start, West Germany had felt like a patient straining his ears while four doctors discussed his operation in the next room. As the conference opened, bells tolled all over Germany, students marched silently through cities, people gathered to pray. A Teletype connected Der Alte's mountaintop with his lieutenants in Geneva. Bulganin's statement that the unification of Germany could wait had plunged them in gloom, but that gloom had been expected. Eisenhower's statement-as it reached the public through a British briefing officer-sounded as if the West were getting ready...