Word: straying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth-moon system. But space far from any planet is still unexplored. This outer space is presumably traversed by vast clouds of material shot out of the sun, and they may behave differently when not near a planet. Cosmic rays and micrometeorites may behave differently, too. There may be stray magnetic fields wandering free through empty space. The information Pioneer V can report about all these things will be essential when, years hence, man himself ventures on voyages between the planets...
Patrolman Philip Colwell was making a routine check of the treatment and disposal of stray dogs in New Haven when he found that the numbers did not jibe. Yale University's School of Medicine had bought as many as 1,700 dogs for research in a single year, all from nearby towns. But these communities had never reported having disposed of so many healthy strays in this manner. Colwell went off on a hot scent that led him, with a bloodhound assist from Connecticut state police, to the biggest dognapping scandal in the state's history. Last week...
...painful daily injections. Since Labor Day, 1,388 animals (mostly dogs, but including 187 cats) had been shot (more than 200 last week) on the suspicion that any animal at large might be rabid. That the suspicion was justified was shown in a check of 48 stray dogs picked up at Calexico in four days: 29 proved rabid...
Shoot at Sight. Imperial County's problem is that, although its antirabies precautions have long matched the U.S. average, it faces an abnormal hazard-an estimated 25,000 stray dogs across the border in Mexicali (pop. 175,000), capital of Baja California Norte, Mexico's newest state. An eight-mile fence, 8-ft. high, between Calexico and Mexicali, does not keep the beasts out, mainly because they trot through the border control post alongside cars...