Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...float. On June 29 they made their break. Dengler slipped his footcuffs, grabbed four rifles and a bag of rice while the guards were eating. The prisoners killed six of their captors in a flurried firefight, then split into pairs in hopes of making their escape route difficult to follow...
Since wages and prices are also rising-including a 2% increase in farm prices in August-many economists are beginning to worry that the stage may be being set for a recession that will follow on inflation's heels. Some of the building blocks that have historically marked recessions, in fact, have already been laid in place. The extraordinary tightness of money, warns Robert V. Roosa, former Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs in both the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, means that unless the Federal Reserve Board is careful to act in a "delicate and sensitive...
...Economics, whose expansionary aspects set off the economic boom. Heller called for a boost in taxes to sop up surplus demand, added that "some pruning of low-priority expenditures will also be necessary." Said he: "Our economy is powerful enough to afford guns and butter. But it does not follow that we can afford guns...
...hijacks the sub, and tries to kill the patient by ramming a neural ganglion. Not a second too soon, Hemonaut Boyd sinks the sub with the laser gun. The villain is then devoured, head first, by a white cell that resembles a large, aggressive hominy grit. Whereupon the survivors follow the optic nerve until they squirt out of the tear duct and are rescued from a teardrop that looks like Lake Michigan. And then back, BACK, BACK to normal size...
...short hairs are best ignored. His excursions into philosophy, all taken in Jean-Paul Sartre's second-class compartment, begin at the level of the college bull session and follow a descending route. "Coitus interruptus is evil," announces Mailer in the course of a Playboy magazine panel discussion on sex. Food has a soul, he writes; fresh food has more soul than canned food. Terminal cancer cases can be arrested by reading William Burroughs: "Bet money on that." The now-notorious Mailer sense of smell, which got such a bloodhound workout in his last novel, An American Dream...