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Word: tracked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Olympics, was the German collegiate champion in the 100-and 200-meter sprints (in 1950 and 1952) while attending the University of Heidelberg. He had Olympic visions but opted instead for Cambridge University in England, where, he says, "I couldn't work out in summer [because the] track was built around a cricket field where 'young men running [about] in shorts' were not welcome." Tinnin approaches his subject with expertise, having just finished a book, Hit Team, which begins with the 1972 Black September attack on the Israeli Olympic team in Munich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 2, 1976 | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...municipal parking lot. Now, with light and power assured, they began tunneling to their goal. The fastidious crooks professionally shored their tunnel with metal stanchions and wooden beams set in concrete. They also installed electric lights, a portable fan and thick industrial carpeting; evidently they did not want to track dirt into the vault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bank Heist of the Century | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...regular salary of $44,600, plus some money for speaking appearances (his normal fee: $1,000). Like many other liberal politicians in Washington, Mondale sends his children to private schools. In Mondale's case, all of the schools are integrated. Son Teddy, 18, is an avid dirt-track motorcycle racer. Eleanor, 16, owns a palomino quarter horse named Sunny, and together they have won an impressive array of ribbons at horse shows. William, 14, is into football, tennis, wrestling and lacrosse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: We've never Had Him at Home' | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...young falcons through a trap door in the box (so the birds will not become accustomed to taking food from humans) until shortly after they make their first kill. Then, to learn more about the falcons' habits after they begin hunting on their own, Hays and Howard will track them by means of tiny radio transmitters attached to the birds' tail feathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Return of the Peregrines | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

Logan's Run is a nitwit sci-fi saga about a Sandman named Logan (Michael York) who is dispatched by computer central to track down some runners who have managed to slip through security and strike out for a secret place known as "sanctuary." Logan is accompanied on his run by a comely young thing (Jenny Agutter) and sped on his way by the knowledge that computer central has mysteriously shortened his life span and has set the jewel in his palm blinking like a beacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Ran | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

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