Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just lost $2½ million.'' Back in Jersey City, two carpenters working on an ancient garage had pried open the trunk of an abandoned 1947 Plymouth sedan. Inside they found a cache of several guns and a small mountain of large-denomination bills. The trail led straight to Newsboy: with the money were bonds made out to him and his deceased brother, as well as a dossier on one of Newsboy's arrests, which had been lifted from the county prosecutor's office some time ago. Naturally, Newsboy declined to admit that the money...
Died. Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, 60, onetime St. Louis newspaperman who joined Hollywood's stable of screenwriters in 1928, but left in 1955 to put TV's horse opera The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp high on the Trendex trail; by his own hand (pistol); in Oxnard, Calif...
...local Chamber of Commerce has charted the great monuments of the colonial and revolutionary periods into a continuous route called the Freedom Trail. The Trail starts at the Park St. Church, just across the street from the Common, and winds about, including some of the most vital sites in the history of the fight for American independence...
...insurrection. Faneuil Hall, in Faneuil Sq. is worth visiting both for the starting variety of produce markets which surround it, and for its historical interest as the scene of innumerable rabble-rousing tirades against the British by such stalwarts as old Samuel Adams. If you can follow the Freedom Trail markers, you will be guided also to the Site of the Boston Massacre, King's Chapel, the Home of Paul Revere, and Old North Church...
Last week Kerner chose the unusual forum of a Boy Scout executives' meeting (a retired major general in the National Guard. Kerner is also a Boy Scout supporter, recently hiked 22 miles to open a Scout trail) to announce his boldest decision so far: he wants to slash state welfare spending, possibly by as much as 35%. to get by until the legislature meets in January. Welfare costs absorb one-fifth of the general fund, have been running some $4,000,000 a month above their allotment. Kerner wryly concedes that this cut maybe "politically unpopular." "Indefensible...