Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whiz kid of the international auto-racing fraternity, the handsome son of a wealthy Mexico City businessman, who won the 1957 Mexican driving championship at 15, burned up race tracks from Sebring to Le Mans with his lead-footed determination to "start first, stay first, end first"; after the crash of his Lotus racer in Mexico City...
...reason came from Hearst Gossip Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker (Igor Cassini), who used to mention Gilbert frequently, and whose public relations firm had handled E. L. Bruce. Cassini lost at least $30,000 himself in Gilbert's crash and then committed the calumny of calling his oldtime pal "a crook." After a Park Avenue stroll with a pipe-puffing Gilbert last week, Cholly chronicled all. "Eddie said he 'couldn't let down' his parents, his wife and children, his friends and all those who believed in him. 'I also wanted...
...short course in aviation, and in 1930, following a brief stint on a cruiser in the Pacific, he shipped to Pensacola for full flight training. After that, he flew catapult-launched seaplanes from the decks of cruisers in the Atlantic Fleet, suffered his first "and only significant" crash: during aerial gunnery practice one day, a tow target got wrapped around Anderson's propeller; the plane came down flat on its back onto a Virginia beach. Anderson crawled out uninjured...
Inevitably, fate itself makes a difference. California's Democratic Congressman Clem Miller died in an airplane crash and his Democratic colleague, Dalip Singh Saund, is confined to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. because of a stroke. Miller's name will be on the November ballot and a special election will be called if he wins. Saund's wife Marian, a Hollywood schoolteacher, is campaigning...
Died. William Francis McHale Jr., 42. TIME-LIFE bureau chief in Rome; in the crash of a private jetliner that also killed Italian Industrialist Enrico Mattei; near Milan, Italy (see WORLD BUSINESS). A deft and imperturbable New Yorker. Bill McHale served four years with the Coast Guard during World War II, studied at Harvard Business School, and entered journalism as a business writer for Barron's Weekly; he joined TIME in 1949, was a writer for two years and then became a correspondent serving successively in Washington, London and Beirut before going to Rome...