Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waiting at the airport to whisk Ike to the 1,200-acre preserve of the exclusive (ten members) Cedar Point Gun Club on a marshy shore of Lake Erie's Maumee Bay. The afternoon was discouragingly sunny and windy. "Too bright," said Humphrey. "On days like this the ducks fly high. A cloudy, gloomy day would be better." But Ike, hunting from an aluminum punt with Club Manager Cornelius Mominee as his guide and duck caller, quickly bagged his legal daily limit of four birds, all mallards. His shotgun: a short-barreled, 20-gauge Winchester...
Drawing a bead on the moon is something like shooting a duck from a spinning merry-go-round, using a bullet that takes two days to creep near its target. The moon has its own motion; it speeds around the earth on a somewhat elliptical orbit at 2,300 m.p.h.*Even more disturbing to the moon-marksmen is the rotation of the earth. In every minute, the earth rotates enough to make a 1,000-mile difference in the rocket's position when and if it reaches the moon's orbit...
DULLES SCENTS BRINK VICTORY, proclaimed the Christian Science Monitor last week as the Secretary of State flew'back from a few days at his Duck Island retreat to a capital hoping against hope that Red China would make its seven-day ceasefire on Quemoy permanent. Dulles conferred with Under Secretary of State Christian Herter and Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs Walter Robertson, hit a quick consensus that the Communists had stopped shooting because their artillery blockade of Quemoy had failed, and they were unwilling or unable to step up the pressures in the teeth of U.S. and Chinese...
Probably ninety per cent of the American populace think the only Chinese food is the Cantonese. Happily this is not so, and such dishes as Peking ravioli, shrimp on toast, and Shanghai duck are delicious evidence that the Mandarin is just as good, if not better. Until now northern Chinese fare has been as rare in discovery as it is superb in taste, and local epicures have had to travel many miles in search...
...somewhat) serious comedy, Patate's ailments are more complicated. That closely plotted plot deals with two men whose relationship bears many points of resemblance to that subsisting between Gladstone Gander and Donald Duck. Donald is the hero of the play the "patate" (helpfully defined in the program as "schmoe; patsy; fall guy.") It turns out, however, that his primary concern for several decades has been to nourish vengeful, bitter (and, admittedly, not unjustified) hatreds against his rich "friend," meanwhile nourishing himself by borrowing the friend's money. The patate is presented as a sweet guy, but in spite...