Word: huntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oppressively aware of a jazzy singing commercial sung by a voice that sounds like a temporary compromise between the voices of Judy Garland and Bonnie (Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh!) Baker. "I love to cook and cook and cook," she burbles, and proceeds to cite the virtues of Hunt's tomato sauce. One day last spring Columbia Records' sharp-eared Mitch Miller heard the voice on his car radio. The light dawned. "There's a voice." he said to himself, "that sounds like a sexy 16-year...
...expedition leader, Colonel Sir John Hunt, told Izzard: "I am forbidden to tell you anything, and that applies as well to all members of the expedition." The British ambassador promised to be equally unhelpful and kept his promise so brilliantly that frozen-out newsmen later called him "the extra-special correspondent of the Times." Soon the expedition set out from the Nepal capital weighted down with 7½ tons of equipment. Izzard sadly watched his story climb away from him. It was going to take place three weeks away as a man walks (nearly 200 miles over murderously wild, roadless...
Last week as the monsoon began blowing through India to make the jungle tracks impassable to all but panthers and dacoits, the 18-year hunt was once again suspended and the 4,000 policemen called off. In the hills of northern India, Man Singh, terror of kings and favored of Kali, still reigned supreme...
...Trouble Lies Ahead." For a year after Johnson's death. Boeing searched the U.S. for a new boss. As Boeing lawyer and a director, Bill Allen led the hunt. Finally, in desperation, Boeing's board tried to convince Allen himself that he was the man for the job. He was no airman, but he knew Boeing's finances inside out. Allen was stunned, did not even want the job. In his diary he listed his misgivings: "AGAINST-1) I do not feel I have the qualifications. That's the all-compelling reason. 2) Trouble lies ahead...
...again with another security agent (James Arness) and a beautiful female scientist (Joan Weldon) to hunt the horrors out. The hunters pump the anthill full of cyanide gas, and then go stalking through a giant welter of tunnels in search of survivors. Two queen ants, they discover, have flown the nest. Aghast, the entomologist rushes to Washington to tell an emergency meeting of VIPs that if the queens succeed in breeding a new generation, "man will probably be extinct within nine months...