Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idaho Power Co.'s three-dam plan for Hell's Canyon (TIME, Aug. 15), Pacific Northwest Power Co. (a combine of four companies) asked FPC for licenses to build at Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley, some 30 miles downstream from Hell's Canyon on the Snake River...
Pigeons for Dinner. Back at Baylor, Paul switched to science courses, got a job as fieldman for a biological supply company. ("I was always turning over rocks for scorpions, and the sight of a snake gladdened my heart.") More than once, Paul dined on pigeons caught on his boardinghouse roof, and when a course in histology required him to provide microscopic slides of guinea-pig tissue, he saw no reason to throw away the remains of the animals. He would cook and eat them. "If it breathed, it had protein, and if it had protein...
Shoal Waters. In Mobile. Ala., Seaman John W. Jones sued the United Fruit Co. for $75,200 damages after he wrenched his back fleeing from a snake in his bunk, slipped on a grease smear and fell off an engine-room ladder...
...suit, is one of the most charming children in everyman's neighborhood; yet it is well to remember the jagged weapon. The one he carries nowadays is of the mind, and called ambition, but it takes an ever more exciting edge. With charm and sharp edges and a snake-slick gift of song, he has dazzled and slashed and coiled his way through a career unparalleled in extravagance by any other entertainer of his generation. And last week, still four months shy of 40, he was well away on a second career that promises to be if anything more...
Sinatra would appear onstage, looking, as one contemporary described him, "like a terrified boy of 15 in the presence of his first major opportunity." He would hang for a moment on the microphone, holding it itchily, as if it were a snake. "His face was like a wet rag." His chest caved in, as if from the weight of the enormous zoot shoulders it bore, and a huge, floppy bow tie hung down like the ears of a spaniel. For a moment he would look among his audience, pleadingly, as if searching for his mother, and then he would begin...