Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next day, Tshombe slipped into Cairo before dawn in another attempt to crash the conference. He was captured by Egyptian security forces, placed in a guest house guarded by paratroopers, and held incommunicado. In retaliation, Congolese policemen, and later troops, sealed off the Egyptian and Algerian embassies in Leopoldville. Nasser then announced that he would hold Tshombe until the Congolese police withdrew from the embassy. Congolese forces withdrew from the embassies on October 8, and Tshombe took off for Paris the next morning...
...inciting a 1960 leftist riot, Mexican Artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, 67, was at work on a mural at Chapultepec Castle. His assistant, distrusting the steel framework of the 15-ft.-high scaffold Siqueiros was using, substituted a wooden plank for one of the metal bases. Five minutes later-crash! Siqueiros is now at his Mexico City home with two broken vertebrae, in some scaffolding of his own. But he has company; his wife slipped in a store and broke her wrist...
Under this system small day-to-day inequities are taken for granted. The other day, for instance, Sen. Goldwater's statement that he would cut back our crash program to put a man on the moon got the drophead treatment in most papers, although President Johnson had merely spent another day promising to be President of all the people and worrying about the button...
...bills designed to help the aged. He worked on the urban mass transportation bill and helped co-ordinate Massachusetts' transit program with the government's. He helped collect support for cloture and the civil rights bill and devoted his only major Senate speech to it, just before a plane crash hospitalized him this summer. His voting record has been a strong one, particularly since his brother was assassinated...
Died. Marshal Sergei Biryuzov, 60, Chief of the General Staff and third in command of the Soviet Army, one of Russia's top missile experts; in a plane crash that killed six other high-ranking officers; near Belgrade, where they were to celebrate the anniversary of Yugoslavia's liberation from the Nazis...