Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trail. With the conviction of the Rosenbergs, the U.S. could take an appalled backward look at the furtive efficiency of Soviet spies. In a long report entitled "Soviet Atomic Espionage," the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy this week reviewed the many men and means that the Soviet had used to crack the nation's most closely guarded secret...
That just about wound up the show, except for a few forthright and patriotic remarks from J. Edgar Hoover. The Kefauver committee had spent eleven months on the trail of the U.S. underworld, and left behind three sheriffs fired, at least a dozen police officials demoted or indicted, scores of damaged reputations. Its methods had created misgivings, as all congressional investigations do: in effect, trying witnesses who are not formally charged with any crime, using loose rules of evidence and few of the protective procedures of a judicial body. And it had raised a new problem: the propriety of doing...
District Attorney Frank Hogan, who questioned the men today, said that his aides were on the trail of the person who arranged...
Graham Taylor, coach of the ski team, broke his leg Saturday when he fell while competing in the Eastern Open downhill championship ski race at Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire. Taylor was the lone Crimson entry in the group of 63 skiers competing on the Mt. Wildeat trail. The first three racers broke the previous trail record by at least one second...
Thus Prof. Frederick Merk is accorded his rightful place in history as a 20th Century trail-blazer no less resolute, determined and tenacious than those hardy, self-reliant pioneers about whom he lectures...