Word: trails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress. He was active in persuading Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie to run against Senator Warren Magnuson, in talking Assistant State Secretary Thruston Morton into trying for the Senate seat now held by Kentucky's Earle Clements, in arranging for Interior Secretary McKay to hit the Oregon trail against Wayne Morse. Among incumbent Republican Senators who can expect Ike's direct aid are Pennsylvania's Duff, Connecticut's Prescott Bush and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...
...Vortex Trail. As World War II came near, Von Karman turned more and more to military design. As adviser to the U.S. Army Air Forces, he worked on jet engines, rocket motors, high-speed wind tunnels. Most of his work was theoretical. The principles that bear his name (e.g., the Karman Vortex Trail, the Karman double-modulus theory of columns) have no meaning for laymen (or for most airmen), but modern aerodynamics is based solidly on them...
Died. Clarence Edward Mulford, 73, prolific author (Bar 20, On the Trail of the Tumbling T), creator of the durable Hopalong Cassidy series; after a chest operation; in Portland, Me. When Hollywood turned Mulford's plug-ugly, hell-for-leather Hoppy into a handsome, clean-living dude (played by William Boyd since 1935), Author Mulford let out a pained cry ("an absolutely ludicrous character''), saw only six versions on celluloid, none on TV. Fifteen years ago, after grinding out more than 100 western novels and short stories, stay-at-home Author Mulford rebelled at high federal income...
...plans is a thoughtful, tireless former instructor in political science named Philip Hitchcock. By the time McKay made his last-minute announcement, Hitchcock had already taken leave from his job as public-relations director at Portland's Presbyterian Lewis and Clark College and was on the campaign trail. Although McKay moved in with the urging of G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall and the blessing of President Eisenhower, Hitchcock steadfastly refused to make way for McKay. He insisted that he, not McKay, is the man who can beat Republican-turned-Democrat Wayne Morse in November...
...Crimson should edge past the Tigers and back onto the winning trail, as Ash Hallett will be the only member of today's squad who was not on the touring squad. Princeton has already beaten the New York Rugby Club, last year's Eastern Champions, while the Crimson whipped Montreal before dropping two straight to the Golden Bears...