Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kept on ice for two weeks at congressional expense had been Harry Miner, a French Canadian whose profession is to smuggle babies across the U.S. border for adoption (at a price) in the U.S. But Miner had jumped the gun on the hearings, with a North American Newspaper Alliance description of his activities. After this happened, Kefauver received a chin-up note from one of his staffers: "Estes, at first blush this sounds bad, but it really is not. It will steal a little thunder, but at the same time it will really 'boom' our hearings...
...summertime. They did not ask guidance on the route or conditions for scaling Temple's tough terrain. They were not properly dressed or equipped. The boys wore jeans or khakis, sport shirts, windbreakers. Instead of mountain boots, they wore sneakers, baseball shoes, track shoes. They had only one ice ax and only one inadequate lifeline...
...Heard Willie Yelling." It was too late. As the climbers negotiated an ice-filled "funnel," the snow mass whispered 700 ft. above them. Tony Woodfield glanced up and saw a mass of powdery snow break downward. "I yelled 'Avalanche!' and dug my ax into the ice and hung on." The avalanche thundered down. The rope tying Woodfield to the others tightened painfully, then broke, leaving him safe while his friends were swept 1,000 ft. down the mountain. Peter Smith, 13, of Paoli, Pa., managed to leap to one side, and was saved. "When it passed, I unwound...
...beer with vitamin D, is spending millions on TV advertising, has brought out 16-oz. cans to tempt the home market, and a new, specially treated paper cup to make beer taste better at ball games. Milwaukee's Pabst also has half-quart sizes, is pushing an "Ice-Pak" beer cooler for the summer trade and a new "four-pak" carton, has even set up a special "gustametric" laboratory to test beer flavor on a scientific basis by charting the tastes of a dozen beer drinkers. Together, Pabst and Schlitz have spent $35 million for new West Coast breweries...
Syrup & Clydesdales. Six months a year, Busch throws open his estate to touring groups of children and adults (32,000 last year), shows them his treasures, dispenses free soda pop, cookies and ice cream smothered in Anheuser-Busch corn syrup. Anheuser-Busch also spends $550,000 annually breeding Clydesdale draft horses; Gus Busch sends them around the U.S. hitched to red Budweiser wagons, promoting beer in dry farm areas where Prohibition sentiment is still strong. His latest plan: to cross tiny Sicilian donkeys with even tinier Shetland ponies, thus develop the world's smallest mules to plug...