Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half a dozen correspondents were sent into action, and the editors in New York began preparations to put Ray on the cover. In Atlanta, Larry Woods immediately chartered a plane to get to the remote Brushy Mountain state prison, while Joe Kane and Jef McAllister of our Washington bureau drove all night to reach the scene. As they covered the story on the ground, a TIME photographer was airborne in a helicopter to shoot pictures of the search. Houston Bureau Chief George Taber went to Atlanta to talk with black leaders and with Ray's past and present lawyers...
...inmate to remove a concrete block in his cell, crawled into an air chamber, ripped the bars from a ventilation fan and slipped into the prison courtyard. There, using a crowbar, he pried open a manhole cover to enter a steam tunnel leading out. But its 400° heat drove him back...
...grew into such an incompetent criminal that he dropped telltale identification at the site of one breakin; got lost after a holdup and drove his getaway car back into the robbery neighborhood, to be pursued and caught by surprised police; was caught another time when he re-entered the window of a business as he tried to steal more items from a place he had already robbed. Despite his reputation as an escape artist, most of his many efforts ended in frustration...
...Haldeman visit is relatively brief; it is the "other states of mind" that preoccupy Mee. He reflects on his Midwestern Catholic boyhood, his adolescent, nearly fatal struggle against polio - an illness that drove him into intellectualism as a kind of self-defense. He describes his career at Harvard and his two marriages, both of which cracked up. It was during the Cuban missile crisis that Mee decided to leave home: "If I was to die, I told myself, I did not wish to die with my first wife." He loved the time for its vivid gaiety: "I thought...
...Henry Bibby layup was sandwiched between two Doctor J. jumpers, as Philadelphia quickly reduced the lead to six. Then McGinnis, playing his first strong game of the playoffs, stole the ball from Trailblazer forward Bob Gross and drove the length of the floor for a lay-in. Two minutes...