Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...river was blocked by slides, and fish runs dwindled disastrously. To lure them back, the International (U.S. & Canadian) Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission was formed in 1937, and ten years later had completed concrete fishways around the impassable stretches to help the salmon go upriver. Each year since then, the fish have swarmed back in ever-greater numbers (TiME, Oct. 3). Loyd A. Royal, U.S. biologist who heads the commission's scientific staff, believes that after a few more spawning cycles (four years), the annual catch will top 25 million, divided equally between fishermen of both countries...
...charge of all of West Germany's counterespionage. His disappearance behind the Iron Curtain last week shook the foundations of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's West German government and jarred allied secret services from Berlin to Washington. And his motive for defection, or the device used to lure him across the frontier, provided the mystery of the week...
...hearts of men and monkeys. Three weeks ago, despite the weather, six bonnet monkeys decided to give up the comforts of a warm cage in the Auckland Zoo and take up residence in a pine grove just down West View Road. Zoo authorities tried in vain to lure them back, but the free souls in the pine trees only mocked their efforts...
...Snead and his childhood sweetheart, Audrey Karnes, were married (as teenagers, they had held hands in the school bus) and settled down in Hot Springs. But the lure of golfing gold was too great, and Snead reckons that his travels have kept him away from home for twelve of the past 14 years. The Sneads have two sons, Jackie, 9, and Terry, 2. "My little one don't even know me," says...
...committee on Athletics is a Faculty Committee. But here the Administration has taken over even more thoroughly. In 1950, Provost Buck submitted to the Corporation a report on the state of athletics at Harvard. Buck saw three alternatives for the University: begin a recruiting plan to lure the best football players to Harvard, give up football altogether, or drawn up a schedule with weaker opponents, making each game a more even contest. Buck, of course, recommended the third proposal...