Word: givings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Porcupine Mountains. "I crept out onto a creek bank," he recalls, "and about 100 yards upstream stood a deer. I raised my rifle and shot it. That was it; the season was just an hour old, and I already had my limit. Right there I decided to give up gun hunting. It was too darned easy...
...years since, increasing numbers of hunters have come to the same conclusion. To give their prey more of a chance and themselves more of a challenge, many have followed Bear's example and reverted to the bow and arrow. By necessity, they have also returned to nature. "The bow hunter is accurate at only 30 yards or less," explains Bear. "Getting that close to a wild animal is like trying to sneak into Fort Knox. And that's the fun of it. It's not the kill; that's always anticlimactic. It's the tracking...
...strong statements on wages. A chief executive of one of the electrical-equipment manufacturing firms told me last October: "If I have a number from the Government on what a reasonable wage increase is for 1969, I will do better in my settlement in October 1969. That number will give me something to stand on, something to bargain from at the table...
...September. 1968, Harvard began hiring painters' helpers in addition to jour-neymen painters to give jobs and training to "hard core disadvantaged-both black and white," William Murphy, director of Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday...
...Those footballs are a psyche-move by the defensive coaches." said Hurley, who has five of them. "They give you an extra meantime to play well, and are a type of status symbol...