Word: mountaintop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Married. Kim Novak, 43, sultry cinemactress (Bell, Book and Candle, Picnic); and Veterinarian Robert Malloy, 36, who began taking care of her horses last year; both for the second time; in a mountaintop pine grove near her home in Big Sur, Calif...
...then there was the weekend in 1972 when Richard Nixon brooded on his mountaintop at Camp David and ordered the bombing of North Viet Nam. One man with a few words unleashed the greatest destructive strikes in all of history. The decision came from within him. His life rested to an alarming degree on distrust, hate and a belief in being "tough." He was ready to bomb again that spring. Only the threat of Watergate and his own political death stopped...
...symbolic religious ritual. After the king is bathed with butter from a gold jar, mud from a silver jug, honey from an earthen jug and waters from eight rivers that cleanse the body according to Hindu beliefs, he is then annointed with several clays including mud from a mountaintop and dust from elephant tusks...
...snub led by a bloc of Arab and Communist states, UNESCO voted last week to bar Israel from participation in the organization's European regional group. The group charged that Israel, in the process of developing Jerusalem, had failed to protect certain historical sites. *A reference to the mountaintop fortress of Masada, where 960 Jews committed suicide in A.D. 73 rather than surrender to their enemies, the Romans...
...fought his way to the presidency eight years later. He won re-election with the greatest number of popular votes in the nation's history. Then, barely a year later began an inexorable process that devastated his presidency. At the age of 61 he came down from the mountaintop for the last time...