Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some fly-fishing in the north branch of the South Platte river near Pine, Colo. As he fished, 50 men, women and children gathered on a highway near the stream to watch him. The onlookers offered advice and encouragement, and Ike goodnaturedly bantered with them. On his first strike he lost both fish and fly. When the President brought a trout to net, an onlooker called: "Yeah, Ike." The stream, specially stocked with 500 Ibs. of trout by Ike's host, Bal Swan, provided fast action for the rest of the day. White House correspondents couldn't keep...
...West's 20th century uranium rush, only one prospector thus far has been dry-gulched in 19th century fashion. He was Leroy Albert Wilson, a brawling, bullying Utah claim-jumper, whose body was found near the Kanab uranium strike with six .45 bullet holes in the head and back and a Geiger counter still clicking in his hand (TIME, May 31). The sheriff promptly arrested Wilson's prospecting partner: Tom Holland, 49, a jovial, six-foot settler, who had driven off with Wilson the day of the murder, but came back alone. He claimed that he had dropped...
...young man's fight: Burma's middle class and middle-aged were standing aside, and the University of Rangoon's young radicals could go far. U Nu re-entered the university as a graduate law student. One year later he was leading the celebrated Students' Strike of 1936, burning the Union Jack before Rangoon's colonial Law Courts. U Nu joined the intensely nationalist "We Burmans" Society, whose members defiantly called each other "Thakin" (or "master"), the word the British expected subservient Burmese to call the white man. U Nu became Thakin...
...remarkable thing for us." Working up the hillside, with Geigers clicking, they got counts up to a fantastic 48,000. The prospectors promptly staked out a mile-square claim, named it Mary Kathleen after McConachie's wife, who had died ten days before. As word of the strike hit the newspapers, 14 companies began bidding for the lease. It looked like Australia's richest strike to date, with an estimated 1,350,000 tons of ore worth upwards of $20 million...
...strike of some 1,200 American Airlines pilots ended this week. They had been out for three weeks, grounding 385 daily nights and throwing thousands of other American employees out of work. Main issue: American's nonstop coast-to-coast nights, which kept some air crews in the air more than eight hours a day-despite the fact that the schedule had been approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board (TIME, Aug. 9 et seq.). By last week the pilots seemed to be looking for a way out, and federal mediators gave them one. According to the proposal, accepted...