Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...only Indian tribe that was getting some back pay, long overdue. The Indian Claims Commission ruled last week that the Government owes the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians $3,489,843.58 for Oklahoma lands taken by treaty at the end of the Civil War. The Navajos hired an archaeologist to help document their claim of approximately $10 million for 20,000 square miles in the Southwest...
...Mustangs operating out of Korean bases have already been of tremendous help to embattled U.S. and South Korean ground forces. One day last week, a Korean police post called to report a detail of Red soldiers, 20 trucks and 10 horse carts were parked in front of their station in Chongyang. A short time later, Captain William Hook and his wingman reported the total destruction of the trucks, horse carts and most of Chongyang with firebombs and rockets. Sometimes the Air Force makes mistakes. From one hard-pressed South Korean unit, U.S. officers at headquarters of the Korean army...
Nevertheless, through her mother she has indeed been able to serve a "special purpose." In a simple and moving little book called The Child Who Never Grew (John Day; $1), Author Pearl Buck has told her story; other parents in like case may find help and comfort from...
...limited to "never more than a minute of physics." To Friendly and NBC Vice President William Brooks it is a miracle that The Quick and the Dead ever reached the air. Some network executives protested that it was too controversial; some scientists, fearing sensationalism, were at first reluctant to help; and the cast of 19 had to be tracked from Pensacola to Hollywood with recording equipment. "No two people on the show ever saw each other," says Friendly. The only bonus offered to any member of the cast was to an Army major general, who had to come...
Full of such levelheaded reminders, and sporting a painstaking index and several hundred illustrations, Fishing provides just about all the help a grudgeless, clean-thinkin' angler will need, short of soaking his leader and catching his fish...