Word: trail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro Cowboys reingrates the story of the West. The book does all the routine things: it follows cattle drives up the Chisholm Trail, discuses the economics of cattle ranching, tracks down desperadoes, and refights the Lincoln Country War. But in this account some af the characters are Negroes. And there the novelty ends. Durham and Jones don't brandish evidence in the face of a complacent public; they are satisfied simply with setting down records and anecdotes proving the prominence of the Negro in the Old West. They emphasize, in fact, that the lives of the Negro cowboys "were like...
Australian scientists got on the trail because of infertility in sheep: it turned out that the barren ewes were browsing on estrogenic plants. In India, Dr. Sudhir Nath Sanyal thought he had found just what the subcontinent needs in an extract from the common pea, Pisum sativum, but his results have not been confirmed. Some Europeans and the American Shoshone Indians swear by an extract from a species of gromwell or stoneseed (Lithospermum), but scientists have not been able to find the magic in it-if there...
...seethed to express myself," he said, and decided that newspaper work offered the expression he craved-and the chance to rub shoulders with "bankers, millionaires, artists, executives, leaders, the real rulers of the world." Hot on the trail of success, he crashed New York at 23, leaped into a job at the World, quickly leaped out again, a back-country boy flummoxed by big-city journalism. Pressed by a friend, he decided to try a novel. He jotted down a title at random-Sister Carrie. Then he started writing, without a plot, without a character in mind...
...Trail. The SEC first got on the trail of the insiders more than a year ago, when it spotted an unusual price pattern in Texas Gulf stock. If it had not been for the difference in tone between the April 12 press release dampening speculation and the April 16 one confirming a discovery, however, the SEC might well have never pursued the case. After months of secret investigations, a six-man team under SEC Attorney Herbert Pollack nosed around for more than half a year interviewing brokers and the defendants, combing the testimony of Texas Gulf officials before a Canadian...
...January. Deming was hand-picked for the job by his predecessor, Robert Roosa, who gave him two pieces of advice: For the first year, make no public statements and do not bring your wife to Washington-you will have too much homework to do. (Deming will hit the lecture trail this month, and Mrs. Deming will move in from Minneapolis this fall...