Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atop his other troubles, McElroy lost the services of two men whose expert knowledge has been great help. Lung cancer temporarily sidelined Joint Chiefs Chairman Nathan F. Twining, now convalescing from surgery. Shortly afterward, experienced, science-trained Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles died of a heart attack...
Defending Strauss against McGee's attack, Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott told the Senate in effect that the atmosphere of the hearings was hostile enough to make anybody evasive. The hearings, said Scott, often had "a nightmare quality ... At one point a woman rose from the audience and shouted that Mr. Strauss had financed the Russian Revolution. So bizarre had been some of the evidence against Mr. Strauss that, instead of recognizing this as the ravings of an unfortunate person, I wondered if in fact this was not the next witness...
Most moths are not pests in themselves, but their larvae are-e.g., the larvae of the gypsy moth destroy thousands of trees every year. Butenandt's discovery opens the way to a new attack on such pests. Insecticides kill off useful insects along with the pests. But if the sex attractant for one particular species can be isolated and synthesized, its males can be attracted, trapped, and killed without harming useful insects...
Died. Charles Vidor, 58, Hungarian-born Hollywood director (The Swan, Hans Christian Anderson), who promoted Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford and other stars; of a heart attack; in Vienna...
...America on numerous expeditions to study tropical diseases, developed (1948) a trap that could destroy 1,500 malaria-bearing mosquitoes a day (a recording of the hum of the female mosquito lures the males from miles around to an electrified screen that kills them on contact); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...