Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mounties chase seaborne and lake-borne smugglers in 32 R.C.M.P. vessels, from zippy motorboats to oceangoing patrol craft. There is a Mountie air force of 18 planes and helicopters that acts as a search and rescue service. In their grey stone Ottawa headquarters, the Mounties have access to the most modern anti-crime laboratories, plus bank upon bank of filing cabinets filled with criminal identification data. Mounties serve as provincial police in eight Canadian provinces (all except Quebec and Ontario), are the municipal cops in 120 towns and villages, and nab thousands of speeders yearly on Canada's highways...
MARTIAL SOLAL: AT NEWPORT '63 (RCA Victor). Europe's leading jazzman turns out to be more than his two American sidemen can keep up with in this live festi val album. When they give up the chase and Solal flies free, his ideas are a match for his virtuosity and his imagination grows rich to the point of bursting...
...language into a gaudy, bawdy, bloody, beautiful and side-shatteringly funny farce, the best British movie since Olivier's Henry V. Albert Finney plays the hero as a marvelously likable lout, and Hugh Griffith hilariously demonstrates that in the good old days an Englishman whose passion was the chase could usually run down a pretty little dear...
...shown frightening power-now it was speed. On Cleveland's first play he gathered in a screen pass on his own 28, took advantage of a block, burst into the clear and simply outran the Giant team. Safetyman Erich Barnes, a 10-flat sprinter, gave up the chase, stood staring in astonishment...
...told to work on it for practice. "It was ridiculous--I grabbed my Portugese book and took off," said Murray. Of a similar cursory nature was the training for the geologists. They got to look at one well-rig in operation. But it was hands off, according to Chase...