Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, he continued, in a thinly veiled critique of Fulbright's power-is-arrogance thesis: "Strident emotionalism in the pursuit of truth, no matter how disguised in the language of wisdom, is harmful to public policy -just as harmful as self-righteousness in the application of power. The responsible intellectual who moves between his campus and Washington knows above all that his task is, in the language of the current generation, 'to cool it'-to bring what my generation called 'not heat but light' to public affairs...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A family of private eyes-father (Robert Young), son (David Wayne) and holy terrors (Barbara Hershey and Brooke Bundy)-in pursuit of a jewel thief...
...Hearing a loud thump on the fuselage and seeing a red warning light blinking on the control panel, Alvin White, 47, North American Aviation's chief test pilot in the West, and his copilot, Air Force Colonel Joseph Cotton, 44, knew something was amiss with their landing gear. Pursuit jets monitoring the flight reported that one of the two tires on Cecil's forward gear had blown and the entire assembly was jammed against the partly open doors of the wheel cavity. A computer governing the gear's operation had malfunctioned, causing the doors to start closing...
...hold papers in his documents case, Cotton ripped off one of the clasp's wire handles, stripped an equipment strap for insulation ("My hands were sweating") and inserted the wire with the pliers. "Okay, okay!" he yelled to White, who then pushed the forward-gear button. A pursuit plane radioed that the gear was descending as intended and seemed to be locking into place...
...safecrackers of the Paris underworld. The movie begins with a comically bumbled robbery, and continues on the strength of its fallout. A rough-hewn racketeer (Lino Ventura) goes to prison for the job, hating himself almost as much as he hates the doublecrossing colleagues who have ruined his pursuit of beaux-arts - to lease a blowtorch for the caper, he was forced to sell one of his stolen Braques. His time served, the former art collector returns to Paris and starts turning over rocks, bent on vengeance...