Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvey's friends explained that his suicide had come from enduring one tragedy too many in a lifetime of mishaps. In 1949 he had survived when his speeding car crashed through a bridge in northern Florida, plunged into a canal, killing his second wife and her mother. Twice in peacetime he had been forced to parachute from airplanes; during World War II he crash-landed a battle-damaged B24. His accumulated injuries caused his eventual retirement from the Air Force. In 1955, Harvey and four companions were rescued by helicopter after his yacht, Torbatross, struck the submerged wreck...
...Turnabout. Another crash program was launched, this time to help agriculture. As once the farmers had been marched into the factories, now the workers were marched onto the farms. In Kiangsi province, 480,000 workers were ordered out of their industrial plants and into the fields. In Shansi, 400,000 more were (in Peking's phrase) "retrenched" from dam construction and industry to the soil. Now, three years too late, the Communist Party announced that it was putting "industry at the service of agriculture." A Harbin plant switched from making freight cars to repairing tractors; in Kansu...
...likely against sixth-ranked Mississippi, idle last week. And, though the big bowl games are a month off, undefeated Fresno State beat Bowling Green 36-6 in Los Angeles' Mercy Bowl, which aims to raise money for the families of 16 players killed in last year's crash of a plane carrying the Cal Poly football team...
...engine was beginning to lose power. Coming in for an emergency landing, the pilot discovered that the nose wheel was not locked down into place. He pulled up the laboring Constellation, began to circle for another approach-and smashed into a swampy wood outside Richmond, Va. The crash and fire last week killed 74 Army recruits who were being flown to Fort Jackson, S.C., and touched off bitter criticism of the Army's system of transporting troops...
...economist who fled Russia in 1923, joined the U.S. Army as a counterintelligence agent in World War II, has worked as a Russian expert ever since. Last year he spent a month touring nine Soviet cities. Says he: "The Soviets' is not a crash program. It has never been tied to a crisis like ours, so naturally it is not a Number One subject of conversation...