Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOUGH not on a military assignment, Bill McHale, our Rome bureau chief, met his death last week in the line of duty. He was killed in the plane crash that also took the life of Italy's oil czar, Enrico Mattei, whom he was accompanying to gather material for a story. Whether covering street riots in the Middle East, or undergoing the normal hazards of a much-traveled foreign correspondent, McHale was familiar with danger...
...Weston journeyed down to Wall Street armed with an idea and $10,000. The $10,000 he paid to a Wall Street tipster to get him just five minutes with some of the cash-heavy New York financiers who had made a killing by selling short in the Great Crash. Then, to five of Wall Street's biggest "bears," including Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, Weston offered his idea: buy up British bakeries at Depression prices to provide a readymade outlet for Canada's vast supplies of cheap wheat. So convincingly did he argue that...
...Vietnamese Ranger company landed in the nearest clearing, but three hours later they were only halfway to the crash. First man on the scene was another Navy medic, who shinnied down a rope from a helicopter hovering over the wreckage. Three men were beyond help; four of the five survivors died in their litters as they were slowly and stealthily carried through the Red-infested territory to the hospital in Nhatrang. Only the pilot lived to tell the story, and he could not tell much. Apparently there had been no enemy gunfire; the chopper had entered a cloud bank...
...crash, officially listed as an accident, brought the toll of U.S. war dead in South Viet Nam since last December to 27. Of them, 14 were killed in accidents "associated" with combat, 13 in action...
...doors to the ring as they go. When they finish, a gong sounds at five second intervals. Later, red lights flash warning, and a still more insistent gong begins to sound. When the flashers and gong cease, anyone caught inside has one minute to hit any of a dozen crash buttons located inside the tunnel. Pushing the button immediately shuts down the machine...