Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Case of the Hollow Heel. Keating ran out of ready cash two years ago and tried to raise more money from other sources. His efforts failed to impress his editors. As they tell it, he once made a trip to Chicago to see if Playboy's Hugh Hefner could help. It took some doing just to see Hefner. "He was always sleeping or swimming in his pool," recalls Managing Editor Robert Scheer. When Keating finally got to Hefner, he drew a blank. By contrast, Hinckle and Scheer succeeded in selling stock to assorted wealthy sympathizers like Frederick C. Mitchell...
...Warren Commission Report, Keating proposed more offbeat investigations. He suggested sending an undercover man to Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish to poke around a rumored "slave camp" for civil rights workers. Not only that, charged a Ramparts man, he even wanted to equip the gumshoe with a hollow heel containing a compass-so that he could find his way back again...
...power that will make it last," observes McClanahan, "is the power of the individual artist to transmit his humanity to it." Says Thomas Tadlock: "We are at a stage now in light that is comparable to music when the first man took a stick and banged on a hollow log." Under the circumstances, even the hint of distant music is to be heralded...
...that was extruded by the bull markets of the '50s and '60s, but the old stable commodity collected in the Civil War. It is the kind of money that nourished Manhattan town houses, cottages at the Cape, boxes at the Met, and others at Woodlawn or Sleepy Hollow cemeteries...
...deep knee bends with 60-lb. sacks of sand on their shoulders, forced them to climb endless flights of stairs, descend innumerable mountains to strengthen thigh muscles. On the slopes, he was the original martinet: barking orders to assistants through a walkie-talkie, charting every speed-slowing bump or hollow, taking the temperature of the snow with a rectal thermometer to be certain that precisely the right amount of wax was on the skis...