Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week these strands came together in Phoenix, Ariz, in one of the great whodunits of airline history. They began to meet when the FBI arrested Robert Vernon Spears, presumed dead in the crash, but found alive and well. Had Al Taylor then gone to his death on the DC-7B on Spears's ticket? The FBI began to patch together the pieces to decide whether Spears 1) sent Al Taylor on the DC-7B with a bomb hidden in his luggage to blow up the plane, thereby to fake evidence of Spears's death, collect...
...Trail. The FBI first moved into the picture five days after the crash, when a Tampa contact reported that Spears had been seen in Tampa alive. The FBI alerted its agents to watch the abortion circuits for Spears, but they found no trace...
...perform-little-known works by American composers. John Knowles Paine's Overture to "As You Like It" and Howard Hanson's Lux Aeterna proved merely to be pleasantly melodic, soundly constructed works with undistinguished profiles. Leon Kirchner's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra belonged to the crash-bang-and-meander school of modernism, with the violins chasing random single notes in sequence while the cello stuttered insistently, as if trying to interrupt. The whole was something less than the sum of its brilliant parts. Pleasant surprises of the evening were Frederick Jacobi's Yeibichai: Variations...
Molecular electronic units were developed under a $2,000,000 Air Force crash contract, with an eye toward their use in ballistic missiles and space rocketry. Besides being almost weightless and requiring almost no power to operate, the units promise to be much more reliable than conventional electronic circuits, because they have no internal connections to be jarred loose...
Died. Manuel Jimenez, 33, jaunty, slapstick Spanish matador who spiced up his bullfights with so many daring stunts (his favorite: making a pass without looking at the bull) that the Spanish public considered him the matador most likely to die in the ring; in an airline crash at Montego Bay, Jamaica, that killed 36 others (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...