Word: canyonized
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...syndicates and news services has cut prices so low that Berrigan can afford to give his 3,500 readers the biggest names in the business: the Associated Press, United Press International and Reuters; Editorial Cartoonist Herblock; Columnists Art Buchwald, Sylvia Porter, Walter Lippmann and Joe Alsop; Pogo and Steve Canyon comics. Berrigan runs no editorials, explains: "We give the news and let intelligent readers form their own opinions...
...guest with the story of how his desperate 19,000, surrounded by a ring of 120,000 German and other troops, buried their hard-won field guns, slaughtered and ate their packhorses, and then, losing nearly half their number in the charge, fought through the supposedly impassable Sutjeska River canyon, broke through to the safety of a great oak forest beyond the German lines...
...Germany's President Theodor Heuss earnestly trundled about the country to New York (where he received an honorary L.H.D. from the New School's President Dr. Hans Simons, who attended Berlin's Hochschule für Politik with him some 40 years ago) from the Grand Canyon (which, in good statesmanlike fashion, he painted). Sampling the lighter side of U.S. life, Dr. Heuss bounced two miles in an old-fashioned buggy to a rodeo in Prescott, Ariz. (His comment: "I looked to see if they dressed the way cowboys do in the movies, but they dress better...
...case history of the Grand Canyon disaster indicates some of the shortcomings of the present traffic control system. The two planes--a Trans-World Airlines Super-Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7--took off from Los Angeles three minutes apart and were to fly approximately the same course. The TWA plane, flying at 17,000 feet, ran into a thunderstorm and requested permission from a Civil Aeronautics Administration station, to climb to 21,000 feet; the request was turned down because the UAL plane already occupied that altitude. The TWA pilot then asked to fly 1000 feet "above...
Both pilots in the Grand Canyon incident were on "visual flight rules," and not assigned to a definite airway, because Arizona and most of the Southwest are classified as "free air," and are not completely controlled...