Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picks up a good deal of lore. Pigeon-toed prints usually mean a man is running. You can tell which predator killed an animal by the way the carcass was entered: dogs and wolves eat through the back, lions enter through the rib cage. An old man's tracks tend to be more regular than a young man's. Because shoes conform to a man's feet, you can later identify in court the feet that made a track, even if the shoes used during the crime were thrown away: the distinctive "pressure patterns," "wear points...
...years, Lawrence says, "anybody that could track a lion or a bear was looked on as something outstanding." But when everybody went into the ecology kick, "they figured people like me were worse than the lion or the bear." Lawrence adds with a bitter edge on his voice, "I had people from two agencies at a time following me around to see if I was doing right. I quit to get away from the harassment." Eventually he found work as a range detective with the Mojave County sheriffs office, and that led him to a job doing "crime reconstruction...
...Pentagon's new proposal calls for 23 underground shelters to be connected by ramps to each track. Only one MX missile would be based on each oval. The missile would be moved from shelter to shelter by a TEL, for transporter-erector-launcher. Each one would be 180 ft. long, 13 ft. wide and 13.5 ft. high, roll on 24 huge tires and have a 3,250 h.p. engine. The total weight of a TEL and its missile would be 335 tons...
...race-track approach offers several advantages over competing MX basing proposals. For one thing, it would be relatively simple for the Soviets to verify U.S. compliance with the SALT accords because the shelter roofs could all be pulled back simultaneously to allow Soviet satellites to count the MXs. For another, not much land would be needed, and all of it already belongs to the Bureau of Land Management. Only the 2.5 acres surrounding each shelter would be cordoned...
...Carter okays the race track and Congress gives its approval, which seems likely, the first MXs should start moving along the ovals...