Word: scans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service. Whatever the outcome in November, the election will be decided by an electorate that, to an extent unique in history, were able to look at the candidates and their programs in a cool, objective light, free of the usual hoopla, pennants and brass bands. The electronic eyes that scan the men in the TV studio are devoid both of prejudice and of any softening human kindness. For the candidates there is no place to hide, no way of ducking behind a "no comment" or a sonorous platitude. Every quaver of voice, every fleeting grimace, is subject to merciless scrutiny...
Campers and hikers in the Sierra Nevada used to encounter a husky, grim-faced man who haunted the mountains on an endless search, traveling sometimes afoot, sometimes by motorcycle, stopping on a ridge now and then to scan the silent expanses of forest and rock with his binoculars. Many a California outdoorsman came to know him by his nickname, "the Phantom Rider." Fewer knew his real name, Clinton Hester, and his mission: he was searching...