Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complete arrangements for the President's Far Eastern swing. If for no other reason, it was an ideal time for Lyndon Johnson to hit the campaign trail, and so he did - with a bang. Displaying all the old evangelistic fervor of his 1964 campaign, the President made a fast-paced overnight foray into Maryland, New York and Delaware, at week's end prepared for a brief, last-minute appearance in Pennsylvania...
Ecumenism on the parish level has for the most part been expressed in terms of interfaith dialogues and common prayer services. But it can also lead to common action. One such method of putting unity into practice is "The Fish," a fast-growing network of dedicated Christians who carry out Jesus' command to "love thy neighbor" by cooperatively providing for the needy such homely but useful services as emergency baby sitting, hot meals, free transportation to the hospital and company for the aged...
...goshawk, directly at escaping game. The bird "waits on" aloft, circling patiently 300 ft. to 400 ft. above its master. A grouse or pheasant flushes from a meadow; a flight of ducks or geese goes past. The peregrine noses into his classic "stoop"-a dive to target so fast that a peregrine once outdove a plane whose pilot thought he would have some fun making a pass at a flock of ducks...
...statistics. In 1931, no less than 84% of U.S. physicians called themselves general practitioners; today, their numbers have shrunk to 37% . Only 18% of this year's medical graduates expect to go into general practice. The G.P. has steadily lost both prestige and patients to medicine's fast-growing horde of specialists. In hospital after hospital he has lost the privilege of attending his patients, and in many hospitals he has even been denied his traditional right to perform routine surgery...
Knowlton is in pretty fast company too. He's tied with Perry Williams of Purdue for the lead with 54, and he's leading such big shots as Gary Beban and Mel Farr of UCLA (third and fourth), Floyd Little of Syracuse (fifth), and Lenny Snow of Georgia Tech (seventh...