Word: chasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maverick, the Doberman. Says McGowen: "Hell, whenever we thought we'd outthought him, he'd go a different way-over a fence or under, or just plain dang through. He's the most intelligent animal I've ever encountered." For four exasperating years the chase continued. The capture of the outlaw dog became an obsession...
...Evening with Fred Astaire (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The dancing master, still loose as a goose at 59, launches on his first network TV flight; with him is Barrie Chase, lis new partner. In color...
...assets) has grown more staid. Latest evidence: the appointment of Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany from 1949 to 1952, to succeed H. Rowan Gaither Jr. as board chairman. McCloy, 63, will take over in December without leaving his post as board chairman of the Chase Manhattan
...England autumn crackled crisply underfoot as hunters in Maine and Vermont took to the woods and meadows in search of rabbit and pheasant. In Wisconsin and Oregon the hunt was on for grouse and quail. In Virginia and Maryland, packs of foxhounds were ready for the classic chase. Along the great flyways of the nation, ducks headed south. From California to the Carolinas, observers reported ground-game population on the increase as hunters and dogs prepared for one of the best seasons ever for the U.S.'s third (after fishing and bowling) most popular participation sport...
...contrast, there was a disturbing report about danger from an object hitherto generally considered harmless: the wristwatch. Drs. Grafton D. Chase and Arthur Osol of Philadelphia's College of Pharmacy and Science tested 20 watches with luminous dials, found that some put out five to ten milliroentgens an hour one inch from their shining little faces. This, they say in Science, is several times greater than the natural background radiation from cosmic rays and the earth's crust, more than 100 times that received from bomb-test fallout to date...