Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desert is only part of Mary Lasker's life and work. "I am mainly interested in medical research," she says. "The flowers are just a little thing to keep me from being depressed until a cure is found for diseases like cancer and arteriosclerosis." To help in that pursuit, the Lasker Foundation supports medical research, presents two annual awards of $10,000 each, one for basic research, the other for clinical studies. The foundation also hands out each year three $2,500 awards for outstanding medical reporting in magazines, newspapers, and on television. The American Cancer Society, of which...
...chooses to press his own first interest, which is the pursuit of a Ph.D., the system can degenerate into what Harvard Senior Herbert Denton calls "a kind of WPA for grad students." Harvard pays $1,080 for each section a fellow teaches, allows him to handle up to three, limits the job to four years. Cal pays $2,500 for a half-time teaching load the first year, with small raises later. Thus while an un married TA can survive on his stipend, a married grad must put his wife to work-and even then, says Cal Graduate Dean Sanford...
...bell for the first round had barely sounded when Clay quickly banged a right off Listen's ear and went hippity-hopping around the ring, effortlessly slipping Sonny's ponderous punches. Clay hung his arms at his sides; Liston attached his arches to the canvas. The pursuit grew slower and slower, stopped altogether when Clay unloaded a solid right to Listen's head. Straining to reach Cassius with a left hook, Listen bent forward and swung. From somewhere in the general direction of his right hip, Clay flicked a right-hand chop that traveled no more than...
...lively thrillers this spring, most already destined for the movies. Among the most beguiling are The French Doll, by Vincent O'Connor, which has a CIA hero and a racy Paris setting; The Interrogators, by Allan Prior, in which two doughty Scotland Yard men are hampered in their pursuit by their heavy drinking; Midnight Plus One, by Gavin Lyall, a kaleidoscopic Bondian yarn; and Cunning as a Fox, by Kyle Hunt (a pseudonym of John Creasey), in which the sleuth is a psychiatrist hired by the wanted teen-ager's frantic parents...
Quicksand. In tactical terms, patchwork is about the only plausible pursuit for the U.S. in the Dominican Republic. So corrosive is the hatred between the opposing Dominican forces that there is no middle ground. Yet the military middle ground is what 20,500 U.S. paratroopers and marines now hold, getting shot at from both sides, and the political middle ground is what the U.S. seeks, while suffering polemic potshots from around the world...