Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country is disturbed about," explained Chairman Carl Vinson. "We read where some football player or prizefighter, able to draw $10,000 a season and perform all the work of star athletes, just hasn't got the physical strength to carry a rifle, a hand grenade, or to cook." And as for those disqualified for mental deficiencies, "even if a man can't read Latin or Greek, he can do a little fighting...
Bailey Everett White, plumber's helper in the town of Hobbs, N.Mex., went hunting one afternoon a fortnight ago. He shot three rabbits, brought the bag home to his wife to cook, sat down to supper. About four days later, he began to complain of pains in his stomach. Last week Hunter White was dead. His illness: bubonic plague, the dread, flea-borne disease which wiped out a quarter of Europe's population in the Middle Ages...
...Hopalong Hats. A white-faced state policeman, who had the job of cataloguing its contents, wept when he came to one item: two Hopalong Cassidy hats. A nationwide alarm went out; police set up roadblocks across half a dozen states. But William Cook and his .32 vanished. Then, three days later, back at Blythe, Calif.1,600 miles from Tulsaa deputy named Homer Waldrip strolled into an auto court to question a man who had been one of Cook's friends...
Waldrip knocked. There was silence. Then the door flew open, and a man in a red shirt jumped out, a pistol in his hand. It was Cook. He took Waldrip's pistol and ammunition belt, walked him out to his patrol car, told him to drive south into the desert. He bragged that he had thrown the Mosser bodies into a ditch, had killed seven people in all, and "would just as soon kill you." But after 35 miles, he tied the deputy's arms, set him down in the fierce sun, andafter a moment...
...ended abruptly this week when Tijuana's Chief of Police Francisco Kraus Morales led a posse 450 miles into Baja California. There he finally ran the gunman to earth, liberated the two prospectors who had been captured by Cook, and triumphantly flew his quarry back to the border...