Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claims to have had advance dope on the British-French-Israeli Suez invasion. It correctly predicted the Hungarian uprising in 1956, directed the U-2 flights over Russia that provided the U.S. with some of its best intelligence on Russia-until they were called off after Pilot Powers' crash...
Died. Major Robert S. Fitzgerald, 38, leader of the Thunderbirds, the Air Force's stunt-flying team; in a jet crash; not during an acrobatic maneuver but as he flew behind his teammates explaining their routines to a passenger, Captain George A. Nial, 31, who also was killed; at Thunderbird Lake, Nev., a dry lake named for the team...
...often the style books merely belabor the obvious and the picayune. Rare is the reporter anywhere who is not advised that cars do not run into trees (they crash against them). The Commercial Appeal demands that kerosene be identified as coal oil the first time the term is used; the Washington Post style book devotes 450 words to discussing the difference between optometrists, ophthalmologists, oculists and opticians...
Last fortnight Wood and two other Yale tennis players were driving down to Miami to start the 1961 season. Their sta tion wagon plunged off the road outside Fayetteville, N.C. The crash killed Team Captain T. Craig Joyner and injured Stewart Ludlum Jr. Last week, after relays of doctors had worked for four days, Sidney Wood III died...
DREW has little love for Wall Street. Son of an old New England family, he went to the Street after graduation from Harvard ('26), sat out the 1929 crash and the early years of the Depression as a bond statistician. Says Drew: "I became so disgusted with the dishonesty around me that I wanted to get out." He landed a job with Roger and Paul Babson's United Business Service in Boston, noticed in the course of his work that odd-lot transactions did not seem to match general market trends. After he published a treatise...