Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paper Clipped. In La Grange, Ga., Barber E. L. Lane advertised in the News that he "wanted my past, future and present customers to know that from this date on, I will not try to cut duck tails, pony tails, pushups, Elvis Presleys or any new haircuts that are shown on TV or movies...
...embezzling the $4,650 he collected on the sale of two Cadillacs owned by the Teamsters Union, paunchy, balding Dave Beck Jr., 37, last week watched a doubtful character witness speak up for him in Seattle's King County courthouse. The witness: paunchy, bald Dave Beck Sr., lame-duck head of the union, who shouted: "I will testify to the truth for my boy. My boy has done no wrong. If anything has been done wrong, it is me. I ordered him to sell the cars; there was nothing wrong about the transactions in the slightest degree. I certainly...
...spite of its speed (18,000 m.p.h.) a satellite is a sitting duck. Its motion on its orbit can be predicted precisely, days in advance if necessary. So if any kind of satellite makes itself objectionable to a nation that it passes over, a defending rocket can be shot up 'to meet it. A direct hit by the rocket would not be necessary. When it reaches the satellite's orbit, its warhead could explode into thousands or hundreds of thousands of tiny artificial meteors, any one of which packs enough energy to do a job on the satellite...
...million a year to replace the subsidy once supplied by Britain, but only Saudi Arabia has fulfilled its promise. "The agreement is not worth the paper it is written on," said Hussein. Next day he took off for the desert to celebrate his 22nd birthday with a picnic and duck shoot...
Hunting in this area suffers from the same sickness that infects the sport all along the Eastern seaboard: there are just too many people for the amount of game, and for safety. This over-population, combined with industrial pollution, threatens to sizably decrease the duck take in Massachusetts. But anyone really wanting to make a life-time hobby of hunting should transfer residence to the Rocky Mountain States...