Word: sportsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another version of the Seaton new look, Ross Lillie Leffler, 70, last week was confirmed by the Senate to fill the new post of Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife. Philadelphia Steelman Leffler assumes control of two equal bureaus devised as partial mollification of the powerful conservation and sportsmen's lobby, which McKay had offended. Not entirely satisfied with simple equality, the conservationists nonetheless like Leffler, trust Seaton and are willing to give the new system a chance. They are also pleased because Fred Seaton has suspended the issuance of oil and gas leases on federal bird-and-game...
...recognized and that our playing the game could contribute to the establishment of a certain understanding . . . When the radio told us of what overcame Budapest through a cynical violation of all that is sacred to men, I wondered if going to Melbourne could have any sense. We are sportsmen, but we are not soft in the head, are we?'' The Netherlands' Olympic Committee answered that question by withdrawing from the games, donating 100,000 guilder?, ($26,000) of its Olympic fund to Hungarian war relief...
...Silent World (Columbia). With the Aqua-Lung, which he invented in collaboration with an engineer named Emile Gagnan, a 46-year-old captain in the French navy, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, provided the wings on which both Sunday sportsmen and serious scientists have gone soaring with a new freedom into the wild green yonder. In The Silent World, which since its publication in 1953 has sold almost 500,000 copies in the U.S. alone, Cousteau composed a poetic primer of underwater exploration. In this film Cousteau has tried to fill the screen with the same "rapture of the great depths" that...
...Congressman, hard-fighting Republican Clifton Young, 33, has been pitched into the Senate battle against the winner of next week's four-way Democratic primary, probably the incumbent Senator, Alan Bible. Young's bright prospects have been dimmed because Nevada's multitude of miners, ranchers and sportsmen have been reminded that Young favored a U.S. Navy project to close off 2,245,000 acres of good hunting and fishing land for gunnery ranges...
...After roughing up a Pakistani umpire and bringing down the wrath of gentlemen sportsmen from London to Karachi, traveling cricketers from the Marylebone Cricket Club came home to England for an unprecedented scolding. For the first time in the history of the game a Marylebone captain drew a public reprimand for the conduct of his team...