Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High-Boot Oceanographers. One result of this burst of activity was that Texas got a first-rate Department of Oceanography. Backed largely by oil money, the department was set up at Texas A. & M. Its students cruise the Gulf in the pursuit of science. These newly seagoing Texans talk and look like oceanographers from Massachusetts or California, but some of them wear high Texas boots while they probe the depths of the Gulf. The system most used for drilling in the open Gulf is a sophisticated outgrowth of the simple, pile-supported platform. Brown & Root, Inc. of Houston starts with...
Zouzou slammed down the phone, swept furiously out of the palace, got into the Cadillac and sped toward Alexandria at 75 m.p.h. Behind her, startled MPs phoned check points and organized pursuit. At the Kilometer 10 checkpoint, a scared soldier halted Zouzou...
...Snead and about 4,000,000 other American golfers could have told him. To the casual eye, golf can seem deceptively undramatic. Golfers do not run or jump or kick or pounce or pound or shoot off firearms. Their play seems unhurried, gentlemanly, almost oldfashioned. Yet, in the pursuit of the little white ball, men find an extraordinary challenge to muscle and mind, the test of skill, and the thrill of chance-taking. They also find camaraderie and relaxation. To some, golf may merely mean the smell of freshly mown grass and the sight of the sudden, wind-blown hill...
...activities of the New York stock market in the past week," commented the CRIMSON urbanely "have doubtless lent force to the opinions of the more austere European critics who have so often blamed this country for the lack of continental finesse of the pursuit of this world's goods...
...Pursuit by Posse. To Tanganyika's able governor, Sir Edward Twining, 54, the news came as no surprise. Last fall, when Mau Mau "missionaries" began administering their bloodcurdling oaths to the Kikuyu tribesmen who live on the border of Kenya and Tanganyika, Twining's police rounded up 6,500 suspects and packed them off to detention camps. The Mau Mau vowed revenge, and last week's invasion was their way of getting...