Word: trails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy picked up the trail of Frank Coe just before election last fall. In his big Chicago Palmer House speech, the Wisconsin Senator listed Coe as a prime example of subversives in public office. A New Deal economist who had become the $20,000 secretary of the International Monetary Fund, Coe had been identified before congressional investigators as a Red agent. The State Department had even refused him a passport. But not until McCarthy spoke did the Truman Administration demand Coe's dismissal from his sensitive post. And not until Coe himself refused to say whether...
Last week McCarthy was in full bay again on Coe's trail. A new scent had been picked up by the Senate investigations subcommittee chaired by McCarthy. It led back to postwar Austria, where the IMF had apparently sided with the Communists in trying to block a currency devaluation. When the subcommittee hinted that Coe may have been responsible, the former IMF official broke up a trip in Mexico (no passport required), flew back to Washington for an indignant appearance before McCarthy...
...province's uranium mines. The federal government admitted that, under Canadian law, it had no alternative to installing the same Red union as bargaining agent at the government-owned Eldorado mines, the country's largest uranium producers. Mine-Mill, already solidly entrenched at Trail, British Columbia, where heavy water for Canadian and U.S. atomic plants is produced, has long been Canada's most slavish Communist union. Harvey Murphy, the union's boss in British Columbia, is an avowed Communist who was trained at Moscow's Lenin Institute...
Last week, after seven expeditions and almost three decades of search for the famous adventurer and his party, the trail was cold, but the subject of Fawcett was not. Conceding at last that all hope of the colonel's return was gone, the Fawcett family has released for publication the memoir of his seven expeditions through the South American rain forest. It ranks as one of the major narratives in modern exploration...
...bring out basic shapes that are hidden in nature's creations, and perhaps seen only by his eye. Living quietly in Connecticut, he gets his ideas from the scene around him. Says he: "I see them in a torn piece of cloud, a green thicket, or the trail of smoke from a passing train." What is Sculptor Gabo trying to say with his strange shapes? "I am trying to tell the world in this frustrated time of ours that there is beauty in spite of all the ugliness and horror. I am trying to ... call attention to the constructive...