Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most publicized G.I. after his amateur gumshoeing for the late Joe McCarthy, could well beam. Unlike his 1953 visit with youthful Sleuth Roy Cohn, when the two sparked "Go Home" headlines for their plan of "inspecting the BBC," Schine arrived almost unnoticed, seemed oddly quiet about his Rover Boy past. Asked a reporter: Does he regret his McCarthy ties? Hedged David: "I'd rather...
Kiwi-A. This sort of engine, which nuclear engineers consider a first step only, has been in development at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for three years under the code name of Project Rover. The first experimental engine, the Kiwi-A (which is not expected to fly, hence the name), is scheduled for testing in Nevada late this year, and an elaborate test setup is being built at Jackass Flats, a safe 20 miles (and many mountains) west of the Atomic Energy Commission's main test base...
...Rover. In Flint, Mich., detectives claimed in court that former Dogcatcher Harry Wilson made a practice of catching dogs in Michigan and hauling them off for sale in Mississippi, where he would pick up more dogs to sell when he returned to Michigan...
...Londoners, the boldface heads and bolder prose meant one thing: while Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were paying a state visit to The Netherlands, tight-lipped Group Captain Peter Townsend, 43, at the end of his 17-month, 60,000-mile world tour, had driven in his green Rover to Clarence House, residence of Princess Margaret, 27. While hundreds milled around outside, the two chatted, sipped tea, then left separately after nearly three hours-he to a rented flat, she, beaming, to a movie premiere. Next day from The Hague came rumbles of royal displeasure. Outwardly composed, the smiling Queen...
Dancing Dervishes. Just when the mob seemed ready to disperse, a British officer chose to order a soldier-driver to move his Land Rover out of the jammed street. The soldier stepped on the foot throttle, knocking people down right and left, and bouncing his heavy vehicle over the bodies of an old man and woman. Howling with rage, the crowd broke through the police lines and overturned Land Rovers and trucks. At a Ford agency garage near the Mosque of the Dancing Dervishes, flaming gasoline-soaked rags were flung among the brand-new cars, and soon the building rocked...