Word: hikers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself (but he never named his tormentors). By 1901, when he graduated 15th in his class, George Catlett Marshall, son of a well-off coke processor, collateral descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall, had become a legend: First Captain of the Corps of Cadets, all-Southern football tackle, tireless hiker, faultless in conduct and dress-soldier...
Irston Barnes, president of the Audubon Society of Washington, spied two Brewer's blackbirds, a species usually found in the West. A veteran hiker passed out information about how to survive on sumac berries and roots. Another hiker urged his fellows to try living on parched corn alone, as the Indians did while on the trail, and another passed out a homemade, trail-ration bar made of dates, raisins and coconut. At mile 16, 20 of the weary dropped out (among them Editorial Writer Pusey, who had grown a blister) and took cars to a hunting lodge named...
There was no fanfare, no official greeting, nothing except a barren field and a television film truck waiting for James B. Conant, U.S. High Commissioner to Germany, when he arrived back in the United States two weeks ago. As a result, Harvard's retiring president became a hitch-hiker...
Near Freehold, N.J., police stopped a hitchhiker carrying a bundle of leaves that looked suspiciously like marijuana, and discovered the hiker was Playwright Eugene O'Neill's son Shane, 31, released two years ago from the U.S. narcotics hospital in Lexington, Ky. The leaves turned out to be harmless weeds, but O'Neill was sentenced to 15 days in jail for hitchhiking...
...hitch-hiker friend proved to be very friendly and an interesting conversationalist--his proficiency as a chauffeur was also utilized enroute. Although his name has completely escaped me, I nevertheless am able to recall the following personal data...