Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midnight Sailing. When the two had been missing for three days, Scotland Yard took up the trail together with Britain's M.I.-5 counter-espionage agents. They found that Burgess had booked two tickets for a round-trip excursion steamer to Saint-Malo, Brittany, hired a small sports car for ten days. Headlights blazing, the car flashed through the deserted streets of Southampton just before midnight, screeched to a stop at the dockside. The two men tossed a couple of shillings to the dock attendant, shouted "Buy yourself a drink," and leaped aboard the steamer. "What about...
Crackup. There the trail ended. But police and newsmen were also following another trail, into the two men's past. On the surface, tall, erudite Donald MacLean looked the very model of the modern British diplomat. He won honors at Cambridge, was a member of a respectable Scots family. His father, Sir Donald, was a leader of the Liberal Party, made such repetitious speeches that he inspired a parliamentary ditty: "Sir Donald MacLean, he says it over & over again." No stuffy diplomat, young MacLean loved gay parties; he and his attractive American wife often entertained in their Georgetown house...
...artist has pictured the magnificence of the western states more eloquently than Photographer Ansel Adams. This summer thousands upon thousands of tourists will follow Adams' well-beaten trail up & down the National Parks, fixing the cold eyes of their cameras on the same splendors he has photographed-and hoping, somehow, to match...
...meteor cameras were blind to any meteor smaller than a marble, the new model will photograph the tracks of meteors as small as buckshot. As soon as a duplicate camera is completed, the meteormen can compare their films and tell by triangulation the distance and altitude of each meteor trail...
...Italian government as a gesture of friendship to the U.S. Sometime this summer, they will be installed on the approach to Washington's Arlington Memorial Bridge. A current project in Fraser's big, cluttered Westport, Conn, studio: a new version of End of the Trail for his old home town of Mitchell...