Word: treks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Desert Trek. The sun killed many, too-although hundreds of them made incredible week-long treks across the barren Mojave Desert, carrying nothing to drink but a gallon jug of water, hiding under cactus by day and walking by night. Harassed immigration officials rounded them up in knots along the roads, in wholesale lots on farms, loaded them into yellow buses and took them back to Mexico. Last year 230,000 were caught in California alone. Most of them hustled back, were often caught again at the same job in the same field on the same...
...closing days of Lent have been heading for Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University does not advertise the Palm Sunday Parsifal produced (in English) by its Opera Workshop, but those who have seen it have spread the word. Each year, more & more people, from Indianapolis, Louisville and Cincinnati, make the trek...
...Twenty-five years ago, a good many U.S. intellectuals were buying one-way tickets to Paris to escape their countrymen's "cultural Philistinism." After a while, with thinning hair and dampened enthusiasm, they began to drift home. One U.S. highbrow who refused to join the trek to Paris was Gerald Sykes. Stay home and work for what you want, he told his fellow intellectuals; in his tidy novel, The Nice American, he is still offering pretty much the same advice...
...home-grown brand of Kentuckian is not necessarily as lean, long and hard-driving as the University of Kentucky's Basketball Coach Adolph Rupp would like, but there are other states: each year dozens of slat-shaped aspirants from all over the U.S. trek to Rupp's office in Lexington, many of them at their own expense, to try out for Rupp's team. The 1948 crop (four Kentuckians, eight outlanders) was particularly potent; it won the national championship, and its starting five went on to the U.S. Olympic squad and later to professional careers. Last year...
What is odd is that Harvard defenders are willing and enthusiastic about performing this thankless heroism week after week. They leave the comfort of the stands, the solace of their companions in misery on the homeward trek over the Anderson Bridge, and, in some cases, their dates. In exchange, they have an opportunity to be punched, kicked, knocked down, disrobed, and robbed by hordes of boisterous invaders from other colleges and waves of enterprising gamins...