Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Also lost in the crash: 15 abstract paintings and drawings by the late Arshile Gorky (TIME, Feb. 23) that were en route to Los Angeles for an exhibition. Recovered from Alton Jones's effects: $55,690 in cash (including one $10,000 bill), another $7,000 in traveler's checks. Business associates of the free-spending Jones were not surprised...
...pistols was indiscriminate. Despite the confusion, most of the people went about their business with conventional apathy. Pretty girls in billowing silk gracefully pedaled their bicycles, and motorists stopped for red lights. Finally, a shot from a minesweeper downed one of the rebel planes, and as the pilot crash-landed in the Saigon River, the other plane fled toward the Cambodian border about 40 miles away...
...will soon explode a nuclear device at a test site in her desert interior. By some estimates the first Chinese blast will quiver the world's microbarographs in about six months; others give 18 months as a more likely figure. But no one doubts that Red China will crash the nuclear club (U.S., Russia, Britain, France) without much more delay. Said one U.S. physicist: "I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet." A British physicist puts it more broadly: "Everybody knows how to make bombs, even small countries...
Bidwell, known to Wall Street friends as "Biddy," is a shy, much-respected Lehigh graduate who came to the Street shortly before the 1929 crash, bought his Exchange seat in 1941, and has since prospered as an independent floor broker. Unlike most men with large incomes, he filled out his own tax returns...
...muzzle-to-muzzle duels with enemy coast artillery, after the war served twice as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations and headed the Naval War College before moving on to the presidency of Long Island University, whose enrollment increased fivefold during his administration; in the jetliner crash into Jamaica Bay, N.Y. that took 94 other lives, including that of his wife, Helen Jacobs Conolly, 62 (see THE NATION...