Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authors track down their leads, The Secret Search comes to recall Theodore Draper's Abuse of Power, and in some respects this later book just misses being a perfect last chapter to Draper's work. While Draper is far more ambitious, surveying the whole panorama of the U.S. involvement, and also more polemical, the two works have a common message: the U.S. has sought in Vietnam to settle by force a problem it would not, and probably could not, handle by political means...
Researcher Nancy Williams used to think herself above all superstition. But all week long she noticed the numbers 7, 2 and 1 recurring in reports from correspondents. She now plans to get out to the track as soon as she can to make what she figures will be some shrewd wagers on the daily double...
...Carlos' time out of the record book. Rule No. 142 of the International Amateur Athletic Federation requires that runners wear shoes with no more than six spikes. Carlos and Smith both wore new Puma shoes with soles studded with 68 needle-like spikes designed especially for the composition track that is an exact replica of the running surface at Mexico City. Questad ran in regulation shoes. And Winner Carlos insisted that he could have run 20-flat barefoot...
...whose company is one of the route's prime contenders (others include American and TWA), admits that "a shakedown" in the number of flights is probably inevitable. One way to accomplish that would be to set up a computerized pool arrangement that would enable competing airlines to keep track of combined bookings and cancel redundant flights...
...company originated as a track builder for Western railroads. It undertook dozens of rail projects, notably a 725-mile stretch (with 45 tunnels) of Western Pacific line through the Sierra Nevada and the Feather River Canyon. In the 1930s, Utah started its all-out expansion. It became one of Six Companies, Inc., a consortium that also included Henry Kaiser and Morrison-Knudsen Co., which bid jointly on Hoover, Bonneville and many another mammoth engineering project in the booming West. The Six Companies have long since separated, but Utah is still heavily involved in construction. It currently has a $102 million...