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Statistically, a passenger on a scheduled airline flight in the U.S. has a 99.99992% chance of landing safe and sound. Indeed, Lloyd's of London calculates that a person is 24 times more likely to be killed in a car than in an airliner. Nevertheless, 461 people have died in eight U.S. air crashes so far this year, the worst record of fatalities since 1960. All too often the cause has been a simple mechanical fault or, more disturbing yet, an elementary error committed by a flight crew. As a result, questions are being raised with increasing frequency...
...circumstance that supports the denials: the stories are wildly contradictory. If all the rumors inspired by Giscard's style naturel were true, he would have a capacity for bilocation and legerdemain that might more accurately be dubbed "le style surnaturel." Take, for instance, his purported 5 a.m. car collision with a milk truck last September. The accident was reportedly witnessed by some on the Champs Elysées, by others in a Paris suburb. Some say they saw him driving a black Citroën, some a green Peugeot. Others knowingly assert that the vehicle was a red Maserati...
Reports that the once dignified, upright Mills, married to his wife Polly for 40 years, was drinking heavily and carousing in Washington nightspots had been circulating for months. The rumors became public scandal after the Tidal Basin incident of last October, when Mills' car was stopped late at night by Washington police. The car contained five passengers, including Mills and Mrs. Annabella Battistella, 38, a frequent companion of his in the past year, who worked as a striptease dancer at a Washington nightclub under the name of Fanne Fox. Fanne leaped from the car, ran toward a small estuary...
...said that on their way to the arrest, Dennehy and Scanlon picked up one Cambridge policeman in their car, and a sergeant arrived later. The man offered no resistance to arrest, Murphy said...
...sleepwalks through chores on his mother's land and binges in neighboring honky-tonks. He falls in with a scheme to spirit an eccentric white man across the Canadian border. When the plan is aborted, he simply tosses away the keys to the car that was to be his payment. He is bloodied in a brawl. Then another death ensues, that of his ancient grandmother. She had once been the third wife of a revered - and defeated - Blackfoot chief. Watching her die, the grandson learns something of her heroism and finds another survivor, his own grandfather, to link...