Word: trails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Politics. Born in 1893 in Bengal, British India, where his father, Sir Zahid Suhrawardy, was a Moslem high court judge, his mother a noted Moslem writer in a land where women usually live in obscurity. Moved up along the well-marked trail of well-off Indians to Oxford, won honors and a law degree. Politics-minded, he became a city councilman in Calcutta, a member for 24 years (1921-45) of the provincial legislative council of British-run Bengal; in 1946 he became provincial Chief Minister. Though a Moslem, he lined up with Gandhi, Nehru and other Indian leaders...
...hooky-players soon assume the stature of resistance heroes to the French school kids who improbably help speed them on their way. On their trail, Kelly and Barbara feud continuously over whose child is the culpable genius of the escape. At one point the young refugees, trapped amidst some NATO ground maneuvers, totally thwart the efforts of a pushbutton general (hammishly caricatured by Michael Redgrave) to pinpoint them, even outwit his dread Operation Meatloaf ("Not intended for use until the Red army is actually in Trafalgar Square"). Amusing except when it pleads ponderously for international understanding, The Happy Road eventually...
...brilliant white flash lit the horizon, and the pencil-shaped Atlas slowly, silently lifted into the air, gaining speed, her exhausts pushing down neat twin yellow-white flames. Then, almost 8,000 ft. up, one flame trail lengthened, turned orange, mingled with ominous black smoke. The missile lurched to one side, straightened out, began to drop away, spewing metal shards. The trouble: one engine had lost power, thrown the Bird out of kilter, made the missile a safety hazard. On Cape Canaveral test officers quickly reacted, exploded Atlas by remote control. The missile crashed with a thud into the surf...
Hutcheson's name hit the sawdusty scandal trail when investigators for Tennessee Senator Albert Gore's public-roads subcommittee began to check over a growing woodpile of corruption in Indiana's road-building program. The story, as Gore developed it in Washington hearings last week: Carpenters' Treasurer Frank Chapman, 52, borrowed $20,000 from an Indianapolis bank on his own and Hutcheson's signatures, bought up nine pieces of Indiana right-of-way land for $22,500, sold it all within 30 days to the state for $101,000. Furthermore, Brotherhood Vice President O. William...
Lures of all sorts have been wondrously perfected. There are plugs with small propellers, plugs with built-in batteries and small flashlight eyes, plugs with odorous oils supposedly tantalizing to fish, plugs with a hole for Seltzer tablets that leave a trail of attractive bubbles along the bottom. "At one time," said Instructor Henry Lyman, publisher of Salt Water Sportsman, "someone discovered that bluefish would strike at the shankbone of an alley cat. For years when the blues were biting, you couldn't find a live cat in town. There are even lures out now with built-in fish...