Word: trailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alike, 85 in all, were part of California's famed Sierra Club, out for a day's hike through the mountains. Their leader, a gangling Sierra surveyor, bluntly laid down the law: no straggling behind, no getting ahead, no smoking, no chewing gum wrappers tossed along the trail. No dogs. And put away those transistor radios...
...this has changed recently. Now the piercee is simply following a well-worn path, not blazing a trail. Just as she plinked on a guitar last year, the informed 'Cliffie this year pierced her ears. How can mothers protest when "all the other girls on my corridor have pierced ears?" Furthermore, some mothers are not beating, but joining, the trend. It is not surprising to hear of a mother and daughter having their ears pierced at the same time, perhaps to present a solid front against the male wrath...
...years ago, in Rowe, Mass, (pop. 260), a one-store mountain town on the Deerfield River not far from the old Mohawk Trail, they put up a brand-new nuclear reactor that turned out to be one of the U.S.'s largest. Owned by the Yankee Atomic Electric Co., a combine of a dozen New England utility firms, the reactor is worth $57 million; last year it hummed out more than a billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. It is by far Rowe's biggest industry, and Postmaster Wendell Bjork-who owns the town's general store-estimates...
...varsity swimmers hit the post-season tournament trail this afternoon with a trek to Dartmouth for the three-day Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Championships...
Most bugging is done with simple apparatus, since the tiny transmitters usually have to be abandoned on the job. The smallest bug in common use is about one inch square, and it must be clipped to a metal object or trail a few feet of wire to serve as an antenna. Its range may be a few hundred feet. In such areas as residential Beverly Hills, where rooms are hard to rent and cars cannot be parked on the streets at night, the electronic sleuth buries a brick-size repeater in the victim's yard, threading its antenna wire...