Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles one day last November, an attorney read down a list of 42 victims of a National Airlines DC-7B crash in the Gulf of Mexico and spotted the name of a client. It was Robert Vernon Spears, 65, naturopath* of Dallas and Los Angeles. The attorney soon got a call from a Los Angeles homicide squad lieutenant who had read the same list. "I wouldn't be surprised," said the lieutenant, "if Spears blew the plane up." As the Los Angeles police well knew, Robert Spears, a barefaced quack and crook, had a record of seven jail terms...
...disarmament study directed by Charles A. Coolidge '17 which recommends plans to put America's defense program on a continuing rather than crash basis will be submitted for critical appraisal to the National Security Council within a few days...
...reason for the investigators' interest in Frank was the discovery that within two months before the crash he had taken out some $900,000 in life and accident insurance, naming his ex-model wife as beneficiary. And as they looked deeper into Frank's affairs, they found that he might well have reason for wanting to die: he was a young man in trouble...
...first-rate bridge player but a loud, boastful sort of fellow (says one acquaintance: "He gave me the impression of being a young man in a hurry-ambitious, driving, smart"). Others remember that he often talked of dreaming that he would some day die in a plane crash...
...entered Oxford as an engineering major. Young Norway was an indifferent student but a line engineer; in 1923 the fledgling aircraft firm of de Havilland signed him on as a junior designer at ?5 a week. The same year he soloed. At the Stag Lane Aerodrome, a crash wagon stood by with an 18-ft. hook, to show the inexperienced pilot "that his friends had it ready to assist him in any difficulty that might arise." Pilot Norway did not crash, then or ever...