Word: mountaintop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hours later a teahouse-keeper on the mountaintop heard cries for help and called the detective. With only damp towels as protection against the sulphur fumes, Detective Tomosaburo Suzuki and seven police volunteers began the rescue. Roped together, choking and almost blinded by the fumes, they let themselves down some 600 feet to an outcropping of rock on the very edge of the crater. The rock had broken the young couple's fall. There, covered with blood and bruises, her ankle smashed, but still unromantically alive, lay the little waitress Setsumi. Beside her, uninjured, was her impulsive lover...
While the principal contenders minced their tongues-Winthrop Rockefeller in his Arkansas mountaintop estate, and Barbara ("Bobo") Rockefeller in her Park Avenue apartment-word seeped out that a monster cash settlement was in the works as the first step to their divorce. The reported haul for Bobo and five-year-old Winthrop Paul: $5,500,000, mainly in trust funds and securities, plus $70,000-a-year alimony...
...being bossed, for Biltz not only keeps out of print, but approves "safe" candidates of either party and seldom minds which wins. For another, even Norman Biltz's critics find him hard to resist, particularly if he woos them, amid squads of millionaires, at one of his mountaintop barbecues...
Strange Deception (Excelsa Films; Casino Film Exchange) opens with a striking sequence: a vast, uninterrupted aerial shot as the camera, slowly swooping down for several miles over the bare, cradling hills of Tuscany, finally comes to rest on the figures of two men on a mountaintop...
...University; and he is working on a full-scale model of a statue as a gift for the people of his homeland, honoring Montenegro's 19th century poet and prince-bishop, Petar Njegos. Mestrovic's plans call for a pensive figure in grey granite above Njegos' mountaintop grave; there will be a chapel, too, and Mestrovic has already sent over the designs for approval...