Word: trails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More and more Harvard professors regularly step outside the classroom, and into the not-so-pure would of politics and business. Candidates want them on the campaign trail. Senators want them at hearings. Presidents want them in their Cabinets. Journalists want them in print. Corporations want them in their board rooms. And during the pre-tenure stage of a professor's career, the "publish or perish" syndrome lifts them from the classroom into the library...
Midway through the '76 campaign White, on the trail of Mo Udall, returned to Dorchester for the first time since he left for China in the 30's. It had changed radically. Most of the old buildings weren't even standing, almost none of the old people were there. White realized he couldn't accurately chart history in four year chunks. So he decided to write an overview...
Moses is hired by the manager of a gubernatorial campaign to discover who is trying to smear his man by linking him with a once notorious campus radical leader now thought to be living underground. The trail the detective pursues brings him into contact with chicano activists, former-radical lawyers, Mob hit men, old movement stars who are still in jail for their activities, ominous Government agents and, finally, big right-wing wealth...
Leaving my pack in a hotel, I headed for the Bright Angel Trail, ignoring all warnings about being prepared for the hike down into the Canyon. The signs that said "WARNING--Take four quarts of water with you or DIE!" were meant for those fat Iowans in Winnebagoes, not for healthy young adventurers like me. I cockily jogged the eight miles down to the mighty Colorado, drank from its roaring waters, spit out the dusty mouthful, and after some exploring went to sleep in a side canyon to avoid the noon heat...
When I awoke at 1:30, I again decided to ignore warnings not to hike in the midday sun, and started up the South Kaibab Trail. Twenty yards up the trail was a big sign saying "WARNING--THIS TRAIL NOT RECOMMENDED FOR HIKING OUT. THERE IS NO SHADE, ONLY ONE EMERGENCY TELEPHONE, AND IT IS VERY STEEP. TAKE AT LEAST FOUR QUARTS OF WATER, ALLOW SIX TO EIGHT HOURS FOR HIKE! MULE RESCUES ARE COSTLY AND NOT ALWAYS AVAILABLE." Scratched under that was the legend "Jim Duggin did it on only two quarts, 4/13/77." I had no water...