Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even offered $1,000,000 to build public swimming pools in Negro areas if City Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving would accept the café. "Irresponsible philanthropy!" roared Hoving. "Hartford is trying to manipulate potentially dangerous areas for his own end, but he has failed." With a rap like that, Hunt had to promise "a substantial sum" for the pools anyway. Meanwhile, he found another tin cup for his cash. Barely minutes before demolition was to begin, he anted up $100,000 to keep the wreckers away from the old Metropolitan Opera House for six months...
...Rockville, Md., one noon last week, geophysicists closed the circuits of the world's first earthquake-information center, connecting 400 seismic reporting stations throughout the world. In Oyster Bay, L.I., oceanographers launched a new wire-drag ship to hunt for undersea hazards, joining a fleet of 14 research vessels already commissioned. Throughout the week, weather satellites scanned the atmosphere for hurricanes, while "Project Stormfury's" planes stood ready to try diverting any budding tropical storm. All these related functions-and many more-are now controlled and operated by the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), the bounciest baby bureaucracy...
Twice at the height of a fevered hunt for the killer, Speck was in the grasp of Chicago police. Twice in that time the cops walked away without a glimmering that the troubled young man on their hands was the nation's most wanted suspect. And though on one occasion he even told a policeman that his name was Richard Speck, in the end it was not a law officer but a young, unarmed doctor who recognized Speck and had him arrested...
...said that it belonged to the girl. Though most policemen would instinctively detain a man in such circumstances, the cops merely confiscated the weapon-a .22-cal. revolver (the murderer had carried a "small black pistol"). Hours later, police matched up the gun incident with the murder man hunt and rushed back to the hotel. Speck had left 30 minutes earlier...
...occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net." Today's middle-agers not only dot the greens, they vault the net. They sail, ski, waterski, skin-dive and spelunk. They swim, walk and climb. They fish, hunt, camp and swarm all over the great outdoors from Big Sur to Cape Cod. They are a participating rather than a spectator generation...