Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current novel Airport [March 22], a criticism was made that a description of how to build a homemade bomb was needlessly specific. I consider this criticism justified. As a result, in later U.S. and overseas editions of the book, I have fuzzed the bomb description, making it impossible to follow by specific steps...
...writing lucid decisions in his 90s; Justice Hugo Black shows few signs of faltering at 82. Warren apparently wanted to retire while his physical and mental abilities were still keen. Moreover, he was eager to enable President Johnson, a personal friend, to name a new Chief Justice who would follow in the liberal, activist tradition...
...Andrew Heiskell, Chairman of the Board, addressed a predominantly Negro audience at Shaw University, a Baptist college in Raleigh, N.C. Said Heiskell: "You black graduates who leave here-you black students who will follow-face a society whose institutions go hand in hand with a history of debasement, discrimination, deceit, hypocrisy and bigotry. The opportunity is for this generation of black Americans to remake the society. Those who take a lesser view underestimate the significance, or even the dimension, of the change that has taken place. For this generation has discovered itself, and in its newly found, self-gained pride...
...thief, James Earl Ray's specialty was botching his getaway. After heisting $190 from a St. Louis supermarket in 1959, Ray left tracks that the most flat-footed cop could follow: he even parked a car used in the stickup outside his lodgings. That was characteristic of Ray, whose most profitable known caper, grossing only $2,200, was bungled when the escape car crashed. The cruelest of his convictions was for the $11 stickup of a Chicago cab driver...
Painful. Some 6,000,000 American TV households, most of them in the West and not yet asleep, got a chance to follow the beginning live reportage. The rest of the country awoke to recaps of the tragedy on radio and TV. Along with updating the story with each reprise, the networks were clearly in a race to be the first to interview the Senator's congressional colleagues and friends, witnesses, cabdrivers, National Rifle Association officials, men in the street, housewives, children...