Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down a fleeing inmate is that used for capluring any animal-the stakeout. Explains Daugherty, who reckons that he has chased down some 200 escaped men since 1963: "You'll hunker down there for six or maybe eight hours and you won't make a sound. You aren't supposed to talk or move or smoke-why do you think we chew tobacco? If it's daytime you hide behind a tree or a log. Sure enough, before long, you'll hear the criminal or see him. It's just like any hunting." Adds...
...young high school students who have virtually taken over the black protest movement, and who were the leaders of the Soweto riots, sound very different (see story page 28). They have a new feeling of power, and they are disillusioned with their parents' efforts to bring about peaceful change and gradual concessions from the government. Most of the young are convinced that this approach has failed. There is much rhetoric about having nothing to live for, but something...
...Jockey Club Gold Cup. There is a good possibility of a dream race against Forego, the seven-year-old gelding that has been Horse of the Year for the past three years and is-unless Slew can beat him-the best horse now running. If Slew stays sound, his owners insist, they will race him next year as well. If they persevere, the decision to race as a four-year-old is a bold one. The Taylors and Hills have turned down stud-syndication offers ranging as high as $14 million; the premiums on Slew's $3.5 million insurance...
...25th season of the Stratford Festival coincides with the Silver Jubilee of England's Queen Elizabeth II, and Stratford, Ont., is proudly aware of it. The trumpets that herald curtain time at the Festival Theater sound a fanfare of brassy assurance, and the plays follow each other across the stage like a regal pageant. Canada built and has sustained a distinctive national theater, and that is fit cause for pride. Herewith, a sample of this summer's offerings...
...German flimflam man named Johann Nepomuk Maelzel appeared in the U.S. and began wowing the natives with his traveling show of mechanical marvels. His treasures included an automated trumpet player, a device called the panharmonicon that could duplicate the sound of a 40-piece orchestra (playing Beethoven) and an elaborate diorama showing the burning of Moscow. But Maelzel's star attraction was a hoax: a chess automaton nicknamed the Turk that took on all comers-and was every bit as talented as the human player cleverly concealed within it. That role was filled by William Schlumberger, an Alsatian hunchback...