Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems, the most pressing was finding a successor to McElroy as Defense Secretary-or persuading him to stay on. Last week McElroy had two talks with the President and a constant stream of Pentagon interviews about prospective recruits for Defense. Administration leaders grimly watched him hunt hardest for a successor rather than a new deputy. A deputy could be picked from among the seasoned hands, e.g., Assistant Defense Secretary (Comptroller) Wilfred McNeil, or the Air Force's able Secretary James Douglas, but the President might well want to reach outside the Pentagon to fill the top job. Top prospects...
Called off last week by the U.S. Air Force was the great capsule hunt in the icy wilds of Spitzbergen. There-somewhere-the telltale orange parachute with the instrumented nose capsule of Discoverer II was seen to drop into the mountains after it was ejected from orbit. And there Norwegian coal miners, U.S. air-rescue squadrons and helpful Norwegian helicopter pilots scoured the bleak, white mountains for eight days (TIME, April 27). The search-in which residents of a local Russian mining community participated on their own-was halted after the arrival of Colonel Theodore Tatum, air-rescue boss...
...Hunt. But one outsider heard the commotion. A nurse in a hospital, some 200 ft. from the jail, telephoned the town marshal, who called Sheriff W. Osborne Moody. Quickly Moody called his deputies, alerted the highway patrol, the city police. Soon a huge posse fanned out from Poplarville into the countryside of heavy woods crisscrossed with streams. Within a few hours, Mississippi's Governor James P. Coleman called...
...where he had gone with Mrs. Herter to catch a few days' secluded rest before taking over as Secretary of State. In bygone days at the 12,000-acre retreat (owned by Mrs. Herter's family, and called Cheeha-Combahee after two nearby rivers), Herter used to hunt duck, quail, deer, fox or raccoon from early to late. But years ago, osteoarthritis of the hip joints forced him to give up strenuous sports for such sedentary recreations as playing bridge (he once bid and made a grand slam with President-elect Dwight Eisenhower) and reading whodunits, a passion...
This week, as the search continued, the competition took on a more meaningful aspect: air crews spotted ski patrols near Barentsburg. It was likely that the Russians had joined the treasure hunt...