Word: cubbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrity jungle. Born in a Bavarian village, he was a student in Munich when World War II broke out, was wounded on the Russian front, spent two years in a prisoner-of-war camp. In 1949, after a variety of jobs, he won a competition for a cub reporter's opening on Abendzeitung by doing a story about a night in a Munich police station. While the other contestants spent the evening in police stations, Obermaier stayed in his hotel room, wrote the story as he imagined it. Two years later, after a tour of the U.S., he persuaded...
...came Don Sheldon, 37, one of Alaska's great bush pilots. Airlifting rescuers, Sheldon shuttled dozens of men to a base camp at 10,200 ft., where they began their careful climb. When Crews reported that Mrs. Bading's condition was worsening, Sheldon gunned his Piper Super Cub to an uphill landing on a glacier at 14,500 ft., waited as Crews and another member of his party stumbled down to the plane and then whisked the woman to safety. In another small plane, Anchorage Contractor William Stevenson, accompanied by an Army observer, tried to drop radio batteries...
Entering the crowded city room, the first desk a visitor runs into is that of a crew-cut young man in shirtsleeves, who looks like a cub reporter fresh from journalism school. The young man is, in fact, William Pettus Hobby Jr., 28, who last week was named managing editor of the powerful Houston Post, which is owned and run by his parents, Texas' former Governor William P. Hobby, 82, the Post's ailing board chairman, and Oveta Culp Hobby, 55, first U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the Post's president and editor...
...first inning, the 6-ft. 4-in., 210-Ib. righthander walked the St, Louis Cardinals' Alex Grammas with one out. After that, Chicago Cub Pitcher Don Cardwell, 24, acquired by trade just two days before from the Philadelphia Phillies, retired the next 26 men in a row for a 4-0 victory and the first no-hitter of the 1960 major league season...
...meetings with 21 representatives of natural-gas companies in less than two years. Kline insisted that the talks were "not only proper but necessary to a rapid and efficient performance of commission work." Some of the industry representatives, he said, were friends whom he golfed with and met at Cub Scout encampments...