Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Space Council. After a Kennedy task force recently submitted its report on the nation's space goals, Lyndon flew off to Texas to study the document, came up with some recommendations of his own. Among them: tighter Government control of space activities, a priority list for projects, a crash program, if necessary, to develop more powerful rocket boosters...
...beginning, the sleek, up-to-date four-engined turboprop llyushin 18 was the pride of Russia's propagandists. But last August, Russian authorities were forced to announce the crash of an IL-18 flying from Cairo to Moscow because several Afro-Asian notables happened to be among the 27 killed (TIME, Sept. 5). After the crash the IL-18 was briefly grounded. The trouble seemed to be with the engine mountings (as with its U.S. counterpart, the Lockheed Electra) and with the engines. But IL-18s kept landing at African airfields as Russia's contribution...
Paradoxically, only a few hundred miles to the northwest, the Congo's lush Equator and Leopoldville provinces had bananas, nuts and palm oil aplenty. But the transport breakdown and regional feuding kept normal trading at a standstill. Only hope lies in the crash feeding programs undertaken by the United Nations, whose officials estimate that a minimum of 120 tons of food must be distributed daily, but until recently have had to make do with less than half that volume. To fill its supply pipelines, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization is canvassing U.N. member nations...
...purpose: to relax his teammates on the West squad for the National Basketball Association's annual all-star game. Of all Jokester Dukes's teammates, none had so much cause for tension as the Cincinnati Royals' Oscar ("The Big O") Robertson, the only rookie to crash the starting lineup of either the East or West team. But, as always, Robertson was the loosest man in the room. Said he later: "I was ready...
Frederic McMann, 49, of Erio St. suffered a fractured left ankle, possible fractured leg, and other breaks and was reported in fair condition at Mass. General Hospital. Emil A. Battat 1G. Bus, received face lacerations in the crash...