Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NEWS gatherers have to pursue the news as well as turn up in the expected places to record it. Sometimes the pursuit involves distant perils; sometimes it involves the tedious work of extracting a few good pictures or a happy quote or two from a mountain of less promising material. Two stories in this week's TIME illustrate these two kinds of news pursuit...
Querry, whose name suggests both a question and a prey, has gone in pursuit of his dead self to the ends of the earth. As an uninvited and anonymous guest, he comes to a leper hospital on a tributary of the Congo in what could be either the former French or Belgian Equatorial Africa. The river boat goes no farther, and symbolically, the road is never more than a week's repair ahead of the all-encompassing jungle...
...details of the Sino-Burmese border treaty, Burma concluded a secret deal with Red China in which the Communists pledged to help the Burmese army clean out the Nationalist bandits. Terms of the agreement allowed troops of both countries to jump ten miles across their respective borders in pursuit of the rebels...
...Crimson second place in the running events. Elbowing his way to second place by the third turn, Repsher stayed within 5-10 yards of the pace set by Jim Moreland of Brown. At the gun, the bespectacled IC4A 400 hurdle champion spurted ahead, with Repsher hot in pursuit...
...Hemingway's generation, politically and otherwise, and its habit of first embracing and then abandoning a person, a party or a cause, were attempts to keep the intensity of sensation at a constant peak. Duc prides himself on the fact that he never "stays put" and that "pursuit" is the prime quality of "the art of living...