Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McConnell Jr. of Apple Valley, Calif., who posted the unequaled high score for Korea: 16 Russian MIGs. McConnell believed in aggressiveness and good eyesight. "Everything," he once said, "I owe to my eyes." Also: "I can walk into a squad room, watch the men playing ping-pong, and pick out the best fighter pilots...
...months ago Maryland Democrats went to the polls to pick the man who would run against Republican Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin this fall. Not until last week did they learn whom they had nominated. The winner: Harry Clifton ("Curly") Byrd, the University of Maryland's onetime football coach (1913-34) and longtime president...
...little (pop. 500) Royalton, Minn., Vernon J. Pick was a successful small businessman. To expand his electric-motor-repair business, he had put in $40,000, all the money he had. Then disaster struck. His plant burned down, and it was insured for only $13,500. He collected the insurance money, sold his house and all its contents, and with his wife set off in a small truck and trailer for a Mexican vacation. Says Pick: "I figured it would be thelast one I'd have for some time...
...Pick never got to Mexico. Instead, while passing through Grand Junction, Colo., he heard so much talk about the hunt for uranium that he caught the fever himself...
Torture in the Canyon. Businessman Pick went about prospecting in a businesslike way. He went to the local office of the Atomic Energy Commission, asked a mining engineer named Charles A. Rasor where he should hunt. Rasor walked to a map on the wall and drew a circle around an area near Hanksville, Utah, an isolated town of some 80 people, with no electric light or telephone, near Muddy Creek, a tributary of the Colorado. Said Rasor: "If I were going prospecting, that's where...