Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Central America. The Norwegian adventurer, who proved with Kon-Tiki that man could navigate a raft across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia, hopes to show that ancient Egyptians discovered the New World long before Columbus. After four days, Heyerdahl radioed that Ra was 133 miles along the predicted track, riding a strong current and floating well-quieting a fear that the papyrus would rapidly absorb sea water. If all goes well, Ra should make her landfall some time in the autumn...
...except for a new baby and an old lush. A four-man scientific team, spearhead of a vast prepackaged program called Operation Wildfire, is immediately dispatched to a sealed-off underground laboratory in the Nevada desert, where both survivors and the capsule are brought. There the specialists attempt to track down the unknown microcosm, identify it as a source of contamination, and produce an antidote. Meanwhile the entire nation is placed on a biological alert...
Four Harvard trackmen placed in the IC4A track and field championships at New Brunswick, N.J., this weekend, but the Crimson finished far behind front runner Maryland in the meet's team standings...
...case of Three Thirty Three's skimpiness is the Sports section. It includes but two articles-a routine description of the football season and a confusing skiing story. There are two pages of fine crew pictures, two pages of dull wrestling pictures, two pages of out-of-focus winter track pictures. Nothing at all on the nation's best squash team and only a short paragraph on the Olympic crew.Whoever wrote cutlines for the four pages of hockey pictures couldn't spell Ron Mark's name and probably couldn't tell a fore-check from a slap shot...
...spent his summers in a variety of ways. He did chores on a family farm down the Mississippi River in Red Wing, Minn. Another time he used his vacation to work as a lifeguard, track coach, truck driver and general factotum at a Y.M.C.A. camp in Wisconsin. Though he was not a top student, his all-round achievements won him a scholarship to Princeton, which he declined because it did not pay enough...