Word: shepherded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 100 miles still to go, mechanical failures and accidents had sidelined 21 starters. Most spectacular of the pile-ups occurred when Driver Don Davis lost his crankcase and piled into the retaining wall. Recklessly trying to sneak past Davis' stalled car, Rookie Driver A. J. Shepherd spun directly into the path of Jack Turner's onrushing Bardhal Special. Turner's car flipped through the air in a slow somersault, spewing parts in all directions, and crunched back onto the track. Before officials could flag them down, two other drivers slammed into the smoldering wreckage. No driver...
...cause of the furor is 20-year-old, blue-eyed, chestnut-haired Toni Avril Gardiner. Granddaughter of a shepherd and daughter of an army officer, Toni was born in Suffolk, educated in Anglican schools in England except for a three-year sojourn in Malaya (1955-58), when her father put in a stint in Kuala Lumpur. After finishing high school, Toni went to work as a payroll clerk for London's Peak Engineering Co. But, as one company official tactfully explained, "her calculations were rather erratic," and she ended up on the telephone switchboard...
...carrier Lake Champlain. Just before Shepard's launch, five Marine helicopters had buzzed from her deck to stand by for his arrival. Their crews had trained for a year for this moment; they were experts at hovering over a Mercury capsule, snagging it with a giant, steel shepherd's crook and getting its astronaut on board quickly. One of the skilled crook handlers, Lieut. George Cox, had fished the Astrochimp Ham out of the drink last...
...many picked up their telephones to prod the politicians. They became fascinated by doctors' explaining hypnosis in childbirth, psychiatrists detailing environmental and hereditary factors in mental illness. Local Announcer John McCormick soothed them by purring Robert Burns's Despondency and Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love...
...Life for a Life, one of ten stories in this collection, a white man is murdered, no one knows by whom. Roused to easy brutality, the police murder in turn an innocent Negro shepherd, and when his wife humbly asks for his body, the heartbreaking request is turned down; she is given three days to leave the house where she has spent her life. So much for the meek. But Author Paton deals not only with those who dare not fight back. In Debbie Go Home, a young colored girl dreams of the party, a sop to her people really...