Word: hiked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...began the last lap of his 178-mile, eight-day hike down the old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal last week, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wore the air of a missionary savoring a particularly satisfying conversion of the heathen tribes. Some of his 37 original companions (TIME, March 29) had dropped out (only eight walked the whole way with Douglas), and a good many more were physically reduced by blisters, swollen ankles and aching muscles. But along the way, even the Washington Post's Editorial Writers Merlo Pusey (who walked 140 miles) and Robert Estabrook (150 miles) had become...
During the hike-which the Justice proposed after a Post editorial advocated construction of a modern parkway along the wilderness-bordered canal-both came to the conclusion that at least parts of the area should be a protected woodland preserve. But despite this triumph, Douglas was obviously unprepared for the sort of welcome he received as the hikers marched on Washington. A dozen volunteers attached themselves to the party at Seneca, 18 miles from the capital. A group of enthusiastic boys, one of whom carried a large U.S. flag, joined up at Great Falls...
...Sunday trillium hunt. Editorial Writers Merlo Pusey and Robert Estabrook of the Washington Post (which advocates building a parkway along the canal) were almost lost in the throng. In the nine weeks since Justice Douglas (who wants the canal area left undefiled) challenged the Post editors to take the hike with him (TIME, Feb. I) and thus see the error of their ways, all sorts of volunteers had joined up for the expedition...
...Post was quick to accept the challenge-not only the editorial's author, bald, scholarly Pulitzer Prize Biographer Merlo Pusey, 51, but the Post's editorial-page director, Robert Estabrook, 35, agreed to make the hike. Both warned their readers that they still believed in the highway...
Thus those in favor of the hike argue that the Government will not be able to meet its obligations to the 48 million Americans now covered by social security without more income for the fund. At the present 1½rate of contributions, the trust fund will be exhausted by 1967, but at 2% it would last until some time after 1975. And if later scheduled increases (to 2½% in 1960, 3% in 1965, and 3¼% in 1970) go through, the trust fund will exceed $65 billion by century...