Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went off the side of the bridge." Although he had no recollection of how he got out of the car, he did remember trying to rescue Miss Kopechne. Kennedy, who wears a back brace and is still in pain as a result of injuries suffered in a 1964 plane crash, recalled: "I came to the surface and then repeatedly dove into the car in an attempt to see if the passenger was still in the car. I was unsuccessful in the attempt." As for his failure to report the accident, he maintained that he "was exhausted and in a state...
...York Tel is in the midst of a "crash program" to increase capacity. Its maintenance spending will rise from last year's $293 million to $343 million, and it is now installing 33,000 phones a month in the New York City area, up from 20,000 in 1967. As for Benton & Bowles, its problems persist. Last week the agency discovered that its listing was inadvertently left out of the new phone books. New York Tel promised to insert the listing in the last half of the press run, and to make sure that the early books are distributed...
...writing a science fiction novel about an electronic device that controls people for a minute at a time. Is Piccoli living the story he is writing? Or is he dreaming that he is living the story? Or is what we view merely a psychotic fantasy resulting from an auto crash? There there is the problem of the actors themselves. Why does Michel Piccoli play a character named Edgar Piccoli? And is it significant that Catherine Deneuve plays someone simply referred to as Catherine? Is this a comment on Cinema and Life? And don't forget that glorious game. what...
...swoops to within 50,000 ft. of the moon, the Apollo 11 crew will face familiar challenges and risks. A minor malfunction could turn the flight into a simple earth-orbital mission or a quick loop around the moon. A more calamitous equipment failure could cause Apollo 11 to crash into the moon or leave the craft stranded in lunar orbit. But from the moment that Houston radios, "We are go for PDI [powered descent initiation]," Armstrong and Aldrin will be blazing a new trail. They will have begun man's first descent to the surface of another celestial body...
...children wailing. Some of the harried congregation used holy water to rinse their eyes, and one retired government official died the next day of the gas's aftereffects. The words of Archbishop J. J. McCarthy were lost in the shriek of sirens, the lamentations of women, the crash of plate-glass windows. When a rock smashed the windshield of his car, a German bank official drove into a tree and was killed...