Word: crash
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...TIME cover story can be done - on a "crash" basis - reported, written and edited in a matter of days - or it may require long gestation. This week's story, built around ten great U.S. teachers, is an example of the second category. "To Profess with a Passion" has been in progress for one year. Last May Associate Editor Ed Magnuson (Minnesota, '50, magna cum laude) and Senior Editor William Forbis (Montana, '39, cum laude) went their separate ways visiting campuses and sitting in on lectures across the U.S. to learn what was afoot in the college classroom...
...alone into the air. The big problems are weight and radiation hazard. A reactor big enough to power a 335,000-lb. 707 jet, for example, would require 225,000 Ibs. of radiation shielding to protect passengers-considerably more than the plane could lift. In the event of a crash, the high impact speed of the plane would almost certainly shatter the reactor, exposing anyone in the vicinity to radiation...
Though the cause of the Tokyo crash remains unknown, the Federal Aviation Agency as a result ordered foreign and domestic airlines to inspect and, if necessary, repair tail assemblies of 190 older Boeing 707s and 720s. So far, they have found 61 planes with tiny fissures around the bolt holes where the tail is fastened to the fuselage. In most cases, the affected aircraft have been airborne again within two days...
...presence of some 4,000 Egyptian troops has helped thwart six anti-government plots in the past year alone in coup-happy Iraq. After a helicopter crash did what the attempted coups had failed to do and killed President Abdul Salam Aref (TIME, April 22), Egypt's President Nasser wanted to be sure that Iraq's new ruler would be as friendly to Egyptian aims as Aref. Off to Baghdad went Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, Egypt's No. 2 man, ostensibly to attend Aref's funeral but essentially to see that Nasser got what...
...night before the tournament started, Nicklaus' close friend Bob Barton was killed in a private-plane crash (along with his wife and another couple) while en route to watch Jack play. "Golf has never seemed so secondary," muttered the melancholy champion. "It's pretty hard to get excited about 5-ft. putts this week...