Word: fork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just head for my cabin at Lake Fork to do some fishing," said Governor Robert E. Smylie the morning after, "and chew on the grass, I guess." Bob Smylie, 51, had a lot to chew on. The dean of the nation's Governors, he had given Idaho twelve years of progressive Republican leadership that attracted industry, reorganized the state-parks system, streamlined the state government and, in the process, established himself as something of a national figure, particularly in his post as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. Yet Idaho's Republican voters had just dumped...
...another daredevil adventure by the U.S.'s most publicly athletic family. With 14 assorted youngsters in tow, Bobby and Ethel Kennedy, Astronaut John Glenn and a platoon of guides piled into World War II rubber landing craft and shot nearly 100 miles of boiling rapids in the Middle Fork of Idaho's Salmon River. It is known as "the River of No Return," and the poor guides thought that was for sure. The place is full of dangerous rocks and swirling eddies; so naturally every time a guide stood up to see what lay ahead, some fun-loving...
...plastic explosive was planted in the earpiece of a telephone and set to explode at the sound of A on a tuning fork. After planting the device, the hunter called his victim, then twanged the fork. Boom...
...Fork-Tailed Devil. The Electra 10 turned Lockheed into a better-thangoing concern, and World War II converted it into a giant. Its P-38 Lightning, the only U.S. fighter in continuous service throughout World War II, was dubbed by Luftwaffe pilots "der gabel-schwanz Teufel"-"the fork-tailed devil." Making Hudsons for the British before the U.S. entered World War II, Lockheed ran into the U.S. Neutrality Act, which forbade either U.S. or British citizens to ship or fly the planes from the U.S. to Britain. Court Gross helped devise a stratagem. Lockheed bought a wheat farm...
...Michael J. Quill, 60, an intransigent, fork-tongued man with a shanty Irish brogue who is founder and president of the Transport Workers Union and a raving Anglophobe who fought in the Irish Revolutionary Army. He had a meager childhood on a County Kerry farm, immigrated to the U.S. in 1926, sold religious pictures in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, later became a ditchdigger and a change maker in the New York subway system. Quill was a loyal Communist-liner when he founded the T.W.U. in 1934, once said, "I'd rather be called...