Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five years. Lane said Ray was the first man over the wall. "What I want to know is: Why wasn't he shot at? They shot the last one." And Lane was convinced that Ray and the others would never have tried to flee unless someone was going to pick them up, probably on Route 116, a farm road that runs just a quarter-mile from the prison. Lane planned to conduct a thorough investigation to determine if one or more guards or officials in his prison had aided the escape...
...daybreak Saturday, Ray and the five others were still at large. Meanwhile, Brushy Mountain officials could pick up no clues on the prison grapevine. Said C. Murray Henderson, Tennessee corrections commissioner: "We are dealing for the most part with hardcore prisoners who live by an inmate code. They aren't going to tell anybody anything...
...criminal get the money to finance his year of flight, from April 23, 1967, when he broke out of the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, through the slaying of King and Ray's arrest at London's Heathrow Airport on June 8, 1968? Where did he pick up the savvy to adopt four clever aliases in Canada during that flight and then acquire a passport to travel to London and Lisbon, eluding for so long one of the most massive man hunts in modern times...
There seem to be two substantive ways in which the program could be reformed. A stiff core curriculum could be introduced or all requirements could be abolished. The task force on core curriculum chose the first course. It proposed this past fall that all students should be required to pick one course out of eight offered in biology, physics, math, nonwestern cultures, modern social analysis and political and moral philosophy, and one out of 12 in western culture. Other recommendations include the abolition of the language requirement and continuation of an expository writing requirement...
...their running shoes for less than $1,000. Pole vaulters have been paid bonuses of $100 for every inch they soar over 17 ft. 6 in., a height easily within the range of top performers; the world record is 18 ft. 8¼ in., and the vaulters can pick up a tidy sum before the going gets serious. One former Olympic medalist once hinted to a shoe manufacturer that he wanted a new car. A few days later he was given the cash to pay for it. At the U.S. Olympic trials last summer, some track and field stars first...