Word: scouting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blazing the Way. In Rhinelander, Wis., while calling other scouts in the camp to warn them against using the phone in the storm, Scout Dick La Certe was stunned by a lightning bolt that struck his telephone line...
...project is the dream of a studious British engineer named John Hoyte, who at 26 is three years younger than Hannibal was at the time of his invasion. Hoyte became a Hanniphile in 1955 while studying at Cambridge. In 1956 he led a reconnaissance group into the Alps to scout various possible routes, settled on Clapier pass because it fitted most of the meager clues left by the historians. Ancient accounts say Hannibal camped two days at the summit: the summit at Clapier pass is flat enough and big enough to hold a Hannibal-sized army. Other points that tally...
Misfire. In late May they moved on Khartoum once again, with four scout cars, lights dimmed, leading three companies in full battle dress. But this time their coup misfired. A motor-pool major refused to lend his trucks to the cause. Sensing defeat, Moheiddin at 2 a.m. left Khartoum hoping to turn back the advancing troops, but could not find them. By then, news of the plot had gotten out. Easygoing General Abboud had had enough, arrested 18 officers...
...onetime wrestler turned house painter, Killebrew was born in Payette, Idaho, just. 15 miles from Weiser, where a Senators' scout discovered the great Walter Johnson 53 years ago. At high school Killebrew starred in football, basketball and baseball, was spotted as a promising native son by Idaho's laie Senator Herman Welker. At Welker's urging, a Washington scout traveled west in 1954 to watch the youngster play semipro ball in the Idaho-Oregon Border League. Killebrew promptly went 14-for-14 (five homers, four triples), belted one homer over a fence 435 ft. away. The tightfisted...
High Roller. At Harrah's, outside consultants are called in to study specialized problems such as transportation; a talent scout combs the show business world for new acts. (Harrah's has long since learned to vary its shows by the clock-organ music from 6 a.m. until noon, building to wild, brassy jazz when things heat up after midnight.) All Bill Harrah's dealers, half of whom are women, are trained in his own school. None of them are allowed to smoke, drink or chew gum on duty; careful research has even chosen what Harrah considers...