Word: sportsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King was not quite accurate. The hills and valleys flanking Quebec's swift Gatineau River teem with habitations and inhabitants: logging camps and old farm villages, hunting lodges of U.S. and Canadian sportsmen, mountaineers living in ancestral log cabins, remnants of the Algonquin and Tètes de Boule Indian tribes, moose, black bears and-to hear the natives tell it-ghosts, werewolves and a ubiquitous, blood-guzzling witch, the Windigo...
Party Line. Hungary, once a limp wrist in international competition, climbed to prowess because the Sports Ministry in Budapest's postwar Communist regime has stuck sternly to the party line that a people's democracy ought to breed winners; the politicians ride herd on the sportsmen to whip them into smooth teamwork. State doctors from the Institute for Sport Hygiene check up on training, state coaches work overtime to turn out well-drilled scoring machines. The fine eleven beat Britain's best in Budapest last May, soon after breezed into Bern and swept easily into the quarter...
...rifles, Cellophane, chemicals), likes to hunt and fish. He has shot bear in Alaska, quail in Georgia, ducks in Louisiana, and he keeps a fishing lodge in the Bahamas. Thomas S. Nichols, fast-moving president of Mathieson Chemical Corp. (chemicals, petrochemicals, drugs), also likes the sporting life. Furthermore, the sportsmen's companies had much in common; one made products the other needed. On hunting and fishing trips together, Olin and Nichols wondered if the two companies could not profitably combine efforts...
...Cover) Outside a tidy hangar just northwest of Palm Beach's International Airport hangs a neatly lettered sign: PRIVATE KEEP OUT. The rest of the sign, if the busy men inside bothered to spell it out, could read: SPORTSMEN AT WORK. Inside, periodically deafened by the takeoff thunder of DC-6s and Globemasters, crews of men in blue coveralls worked lovingly this week over three low-silhouette (40 inches) automobiles with an arresting look of sleek power...
...Johnson. Something of a baseball man himself (he is president of the Western League), Johnson wants Congress to legislate all brewers and distillers out of the game. "Baseball to August A. Busch," says he, "is a coldblooded, beer-peddling business, and not the great American game which good sportsmen revere...