Word: logged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that bucolic 45-mile-long valley, 83 families live peacefully in humble cabins and fine log homes. Hunting rifles adorn their walls and fishing rods and boots occupy the corners of the rooms. In cabin after cabin, there is a color picture of the President of the United States. Yes, sir, says one oldtimer gesturing to a photo on the wall, "he was a great man, that Franklin D. Roosevelt." And over in the Dirty Shame Saloon, Grocery Store and Gas Station, Proprietor "Buster" Bray, formerly of San Francisco, says: "I wouldn't trade any of this for Third...
...chairman of a special Senate crime investigating committee, he dragged such diverse and unsavory characters as Greasy Thumb Guzik, Virginia Hill and Frank Costello into the bright lights for a classic lesson in morality. Gentle but relentless, Kefauver questioned them with painful sincerity, became to millions a pillar of log-cabin courage and small-town mores because of the contrast between his stolid ruggedness and the squirming, shifty-eyed hoodlums he confronted. From those hearings came no important legislation, few arrests, nothing very concrete. But his investigation did center national attention on big-time crime-and on Estes Kefauver...
...Please pass the Log Cabin," said Tom surreptitiously...
...test pilot stationed in northeast Poland, Major Obacz received official clearance to log extra flight time by flying his family to visit relatives in Szczecin (formerly Stettin), on the East German border. Obacz crammed his wife and two sons, Lester, 9, and Christopher, 5, into the rear seat of a prop-driven, two-seater training plane. Only after they were aloft did he tell them-over the plane's intercom-that he was making a break. To avoid Communist radar detection, he hedgehopped over the ground, never flew higher than 150 ft. throughout the entire 150-mile trip. When...
...horizontally revolving seats. Nearby is The Monster-an "octopus" crossed with Lord-knows-what by some madman, and just the ticket to produce four-way stomach upset. Six Flags, near Dallas, has the Aserradero (Spanish for sawmill), with a water flume ride that puts four passengers into a hollow log, runs them under a circular saw, shoots them along a rapids, finally abandons them to the simple trauma of a steep downhill sluicing...