Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JANE COTTON...
Ordering the first six girls to lie on the floor, the intruder used his knife to rip strips from a bunk-bed sheet and from a cotton dress, then tied the girls up. Meanwhile, three other nurses who had been out late-Sue Farris, Mary Jordan and Gloria Davy-returned home before their 12:30 a.m. curfew, were surprised by the intruder, and were forced to join his bedroom captives. "There were some light outcries by the girls who came in late, but it wasn't much," said Miss Amurao. "He made them lie on the floor with...
Egypt has so many civil servants that U.S. consultants have recommended firing 60% of them in order to relieve the bureaucratic jam. Egypt's poorly maintained air, rail and road transport systems are in a sorry state. Such basics as rice, matches and meat are scarce. The cotton crop, afflicted by a bollworm plague this year, is in hock to Soviet-bloc countries to pay for the delivery of factories, which the Egyptians manage inefficiently. In fact, there is only one thing that really works in Egypt-the Suez Canal. Because its foreign-exchange earnings are vital, the canal...
...unobserved second, Walker's Starfighter evidently plowed into the right side of the Valkyrie's delta wing, rolled leftward across its top, damaging the B-70's tall, right vertical stabilizer and snapping off the left one. Over the intercom to ground control crackled Cotton's voice: "Midair, mid-air"-Air Force shorthand for collision. Then, sounding almost laconic, Cotton radioed guidance to the stricken ship's two-man crew: "O.K., it looks like your tail is gone . . . You'll probably spin." And as the B70 did wind into a flat spin: "Bail...
...capsule that parachuted him to earth, where he walked away with only bruises. But his copilot, Air Force Major Carl S. Cross, 40, a Viet Nam veteran who was making his first checkout flight in the craft, inexplicably failed to get out. Down from 25,000 ft., followed by Cotton's T-38, the giant bomber plummeted like a felled eagle. It smashed belly-down into the Mojave Desert, exploding into a thousand pieces. The long, proud neck was broken off and hurled 50 yds.; the heat was so fierce that much of the fuselage melted into rivulets...