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With his usual compulsive need for self-abasement, Mailer explains what had happened. Partly, he reports, his near crack-up occurred because he had drunk too much. But the largest and (if this were not Mailer talking) least believable reason was that he had opposed Conservative William Buckley in a formal public debate on the night before the fight. Mailer had prepared seriously for the debate, he says, and it was clear that he had won. Friends said so. Then came the next day's New York Times, which reported the debate frivolously and passed the result...
Married. Stirling Moss, 34, peerless driver of racing cars until his near-fatal crack-up in 1962; and Elaine Barbarino, 24, pretty brunette daughter of a New York contractor, Moss's constant companion and helpmate since the accident; both for the second time; in Hertfordshire, England...
...spectacular crack-up was the most significant crash safety test in the history of U.S. civil aviation. Financed by the Federal Aviation Agency at a cost of $168,000, the project was planned by private aircraft companies, commercial airlines and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. Its aim: to test new passenger safety devices and to analyze the pattern of structural damage wrought by such an impact...
...counselors, to spot the client who is so disturbed that he should become a patient, and to refer him elsewhere for prompt treatment. But in practice, virtually every client has been so relieved by talking things out with his consultant (and sometimes his minister as well) that an imminent crack-up has apparently been averted. For those with more severe upsets, scattered over New Mexico's sparsely settled acreage, Psychiatrist William Sears goes barnstorming in his own plane, visits each district at least once a month. In three years the three consultants have handled 1,800 cases...
...second season. It is not a network show, but is seen in many parts of the country, as magnetic tapes are shipped to various cities. On Washington, D.C.'s WTTG, 9-10 p.m.,* Actor Jason Robards Jr. appears in a reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack...