Word: hinton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee faced such a man: William Howard Hinton, 35, a tall, rawboned farmer-intellectual with grey flecks in his hair and credulity in his eyes. A colleague characterized him as "always one to want to save the world." From 1947 to 1953 Hinton lived in China, working first with a Protestant mission under UNRRA supervision, later for the Communists as an agricultural adviser. Since then, he has been touring the U.S. as a free-lance lecturer. Last week Hinton got a letter, enclosing a subpoena, from Indiana's Senator William Jenner...
...real dangers seemed to lie in a long-term slow-up of the natural gas industry, rather than immediate difficulties. Said C. H. Hinton, engineer for the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.: any "victory" for consumers through slightly lower gas bills will be short-lived, because new drilling for wells will "slow down drastically," and new contracts for additional gas supplies will be "virtually impossible to complete...
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Best Friends. In Jacksonville, Fla., city commissioners approved Hinton Z. Miller's resignation from his job as electric meter reader, on his showing that "since Oct. 18, he has suffered four dog bites, and does not believe he can stand the mental hazard of his occupation...
...first battle, over enemy-held territory ten miles south of the Korea-Manchuria border, a formation of four F-86s, led by Lieut. Colonel Bruce Hinton of Stockton, Calif., throttled down to their slowest cruising speed to disguise their true speed from the enemy. The trap worked: four MIGs came languidly up to investigate. Covered by his wingman, Colonel Hinton fired three bursts into a MIG and saw it go spinning down in flames. "I know I got that one all right. I must have killed the pilot," he said, "he made no attempt to get out-didn...