Word: tracking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pursuing -three steps, pause, slowly look around. Stepping in slow motion, he somehow worked his size 14 hunting boots through the tangle of twigs without a sound. Coming upon a clearing, he pointed to deep ruts in the black soil and whispered: "That's as big a buck track as I've ever seen." As he sat statue-still behind a huge uprooted maple, a woodpecker's tattoo shattered the intense quiet like small arms fire. Overhead, squadrons of Canada geese flew south like dark arrows in the sky. They were the only signs of life...
...swimming will be offered at the Indoor Athletic Building from 8 to 10:30 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. Track facilities at Brigg's Cage will be open to Cliffies who have pre-registered at Radcliffe Gym. Girls may also use rowing facilities at Wed Boat House after they have registered and passed a swim test for sailing...
...armed with a folding-stock M-l carbine, changed Flight 85 from a routine run into a fantastic flying hegira that led all the way across the U.S. and then over the Atlantic to a bizarre conclusion in Rome. All through its strange progress, the changing track of Flight 85 compelled the attention of the earthbound: the FBI, air-traffic controllers, and-quite understandably -President Forwood Wiser of TWA, who sat out the 17-hour ordeal with other top company executives at the airline's Manhattan headquarters. Said a Federal Aviation Agency official: "That flight was handled...
Word flashed out of Manila that Charles A. Lindbergh, flying a little Piper L5, was overdue and presumed down near Kawayan, 170 miles northeast of Manila. Instantly, rescue craft took off along his track, searching for wreckage. Happily, it was a false alarm. The 67-year-old Lindbergh, who now devotes his life to the cause of conservation, had simply set his single-engine plane down in a dry rice paddy to avoid a tropical squall. Then his battery went dead, cutting out the engine starter; finally he hitched a ride with a passing motorist to get his battery recharged...
...Haven Motor Inn with golf clubs. Erik Roth, John Heyburn, Pottetti, and Seals engaged in a putting contest while Colburn, saving his energy, scored. The boys were really excited and put a whole hour into it. After the race, while Colburn's mother-airplane pilot walked around in her track flats, freshman coach Pappy Hunt was being thrown in the lake. Another day in the life of a Harvard cross country runner...