Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stock Items. In Louisville, in hot pursuit of a rampaging escaped bull, a police car radioed a terse description of the fugitive: "Tan with four legs...
Almost extinct in these troubled times is the breed of college professors who, against the somber stereotype of their profession, are, nevertheless, capable of achieving the rare combination of a sense of humor with a sober pursuit of knowledge. One man who has discovered the recipe for just such a blending is Earl Latham, Visiting Professor of Government from Amherst, who regularly presides at the gathering of Government 135 where he dispenses his collected does of cynicism on party politics in America...
...Crimson defensive line, however, has become among the best in the league. Led by Jon Christensen whose pursuit and tackling was magnificent against Cornell, the line has held each of its three opponents to less than half the ground yardage gained by the Crimson backfield...
...graceful, rose-colored Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking last week stood the two plump, 65-year-old men who rule one-third of the earth's people. As lithe girls danced by to the rhythm of bamboo castanets, and nine huge cloth dragons whirled along in pursuit of 60 golden lions, Red China's Mao Tse-tung beamed in the morning sunlight, bland and benign-looking as ever. Beside him, applauding energetically, was Nikita Khrushchev, ruler of all the Russias, who had arrived from Moscow by propjet the day before to help celebrate the tenth anniversary...
...guidance people will guide our kids back to the academics, and if the counselors will counsel the administrators to put most of the nonacademic pabulum back in the extracurricular cupboard, the pursuit of happiness will take care of itself. Bruises to the ego by way of low marks, poor report cards, etc., prepare our youngsters for real-life bumps and bruises, but a "demanned" man at 30 is a tragic thing to behold...