Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene, on a chilly day last week, was an old sepia-toned photo come to life. In the background was "Old Abilene Town"-opera house, livery stable, chapel, railroad depot-all restored to preserve the flavor of the cattle-trail days of early Kansas. In the foreground on the lawn of the Eisenhower Museum were dignitaries, schoolchildren, townsfolk-10,000 people in all. Across the way, where soon would come the slam and crunch of bulldozers, was the site of the Eisenhower Presidential library; near by. the white clapboard house where Ike Eisenhower was reared...
...Little Priming. Massachusetts-born and Harvard-educated, 36-year-old Folklorist Oster picked up a doctor's degree in English and Folk Literature at Cornell, dabbled in radio, eventually gravitated to L.S.U. because he was fascinated by the diversity of folk music in Louisiana. He follows the folk trail in a battered 1953 Mercury, tracking down leads with the persistence of a questing lepidopterist. Recently he heard of a mulatto woman named Madame Sam who lived in Algiers, across the river from New Orleans, and supposedly sang a particularly unadulterated brand of old French. Sam, it turned...
Scotland Yard's Superintendent Hazard (Nigel Patrick) is on the trail at once. Sapphire was a student at the Royal Academy of Music and the fiancee of a pallid architecture student (Paul Massie), who has just won a scholarship for study in Italy. When autopsy shows that she was three months pregnant, the murder motive seems clear: the young architect's scholarship makes no provision for wife or baby; he and his ambitious family would not stop short of murder to see to it that they had a Wren rather than a turkey in the oven...
...dirt and mud sufficient to build a wall "three feet wide and 21 feet high, running 1,200 miles from Peking to Canton." And in an outburst of planned gaiety, the commissars had promised a brief bounty of meat, clothing, and children's toys, including space rockets that trail sparks...
...blue smocks stare at a mirror next to a thick window set in a concrete wall. Reflected in the mirror is a 2-ft. object like an outsized bug bomb. For a few noisy seconds, a blue flame spurts out of the bomb, then turns to a wavering trail of smoke. "It chuffed," says one of the men glumly. "That's all for this...