Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip to tragedy began last month when 22 teen-agers left Philadelphia with Wilderness Camp, a summertime hike-and-climb outfit. Led by Oliver D. Dickerson, 29, a University of Pennsylvania instructor, and William Oeser, 29, a Baltimore schoolteacher, the Wilderness Campers (at $270 a head) drove out West in a Ford station wagon and a made-over secondhand hearse, stopped in Montana's Glacier Park, then moved on to Banff, 85 miles west of Calgary, for high adventure in the Canadian Rockies...
...strike of the Wolfson-controlled Capital Transit Co., which has forced thousands of Washingtonians to hitch rides or walk to work during the past two weeks. Despite the inconvenience, Washingtonians seemed almost solidly against Employer Wolfson and in favor of his employees, striking for a 25?-an-hour pay hike and other benefits. Crying that Wolfson was an "economic carpetbagger," Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse introduced a bill to strip Capital Transit of its franchise...
Personality & Private Life. A sturdy 5 ft. 10 in., Brucker likes to hike, golf, swim in the pool at home in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. In Washington he has not yet picked up a club, lives in a one-bedroom apartment where Mrs. Brucker collects Meissen china and 3-D photos. Their son is a third-generation lawyer in Detroit. Even-keeled Wilber Brucker neither drinks nor smokes, laughs readily and hail-fellows Odd Fellows, Masons, and a host of other fraternal brothers. At a recent Washington party he met a Soviet general, who asked if he had ever seen...
...looks boyish: no grey threads his reddish hair, no bags encase his eyes, no bulges swell his lean flanks. As a machinist, after a 13-hour factory day, he used to do calisthenics or swim at the Y. After a speech or meeting away from Detroit, he used to hike six or seven miles late at night before going to bed. A powerhouse of physical energy, he bounces and bounds with swift, long strides...
...galloping inflation that has sent living costs soaring since war's end finally seems hobbled. Prices have held steady despite a wage hike of nearly 6% in the past year. The long-queasy franc has strengthened, and the black-market rate of 368 to the dollar is closer to the official rate of 350 than it has been for years...