Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trooper's whispered words, relayed to Westport police barracks, started Connecticut's biggest man hunt. The speeder, a 20-year-old Arlington, Mass, parole violator named John Xavier Donahue, was sighted that night as he drove into Greenwich, was pursued amid a hail of sub-machinegun bullets and driven to cover in a garage loft. Only minutes later he came out, calling "Don't shoot! I surrender!" By that time Trooper Morse had been dead for four hours...
Phillips will not be alone in its oil hunt; it will team up with Oklahoma City's Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, headed by Oklahoma's Senator Robert S. Kerr. The two firms have gone 50-50 on exploring for oil from Montana to Louisiana for the past 15 years, started working together shortly before Adams became Phillips' president. The son of a railroad man Adams left the University of Kansas in 1920, just short of graduation, to join Phillips as a warehouse clerk. By 1932 he was assistant to President Frank Phillips. At 35, Adams was named...
...forum will begin at 8 p.m. in Hunt...
...stolid farmers and their livestock. It was not long before, in the words of one who was there, "the locals were raising a proper bloody ruckus." For one thing, such goings-on were not cricket in the eyes of Lower Saxony farmers, whose own system of hunting is to grub about on foot with small whistles that imitate the cries of a rabbit, and then to pounce on the fox. They appealed to Herr Hans Lieberkuehn, Wolfenbüttel's local hunt master. Herr Lieberkuehn dug up a law drafted by Hermann Göring (who liked to hunt...
...Medicine was titled: "The Relation of Heart Size to the Time Intervals of the Heartbeat, with Particular Reference to the Elephant and the Whale." It included notes on the slow heartbeats and long electrocardiograph waves of nine circus elephants, and an account of Dr. White's whale hunt off Alaska last summer when he used harpoons as electrodes to get EKG readings of a wild, white (beluga) whale (TIME...