Word: crash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looked like the Roaring Seventies in downtown Chicago: squealing tires, wailing police sirens, a battered sedan careening through crowds to wham, bang, crash its way through a shattering plate-glass window of the city's Richard J. Daley civic center. Then cried a voice: "That's a take!" Saturday Night Live Stars Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, for whom the car was crashed by stuntmen, are filming The Blues Brothers, a story about two off-key crooners out to save the mortgage on the orphanage in which they grew up. The movie calls for SWAT teams, National Guardsmen...
...antics, the plot is fairly straightforward--Yates builds up to two big races, both rousing enough to get audience cheering. The first brings down Dave's illusions about the Italian racers he's been imitating--one of them sticks his hand pump in Dave's pedals to make him crash because he's starting to pull ahead. The second race is a grudge match for Dave and his friends. They are, for the first time, invited to enter a team in the local college's invitational "Little 500." A long-standing rivalry between college students and the "cutters" (townies...
Poor last-place NBC is pinning its big hopes on such stale items as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (from the same folks who launched the crash-landed Battlestar Galactica) and From Here to Eternity (a spin-off of a miniseries). As Johnny Carson put it in an opening monologue this summer, "The NBC peacock looked at the fall schedule-and he's not so proud...
...fight the battle of crash reaping and sowing." There were two reasons for that bellicose injunction, broadcast to peasants in Guangxi and Hubei provinces. One was that after several years of mediocre harvests China's fertile southern provinces are now blessed with bumper crops. The other is that the area's farms and communes are desperately short of labor, because hundreds of thousands of Chinese youths have illegally migrated to big cities in search of better jobs and a more exciting way of life...
That will not happen any time soon, and the Chicago crash is shaping up as the most expensive aviation liability case to date. The record for damages is now held by the crash in 1974 of a Turkish Air lines DC-10 near Paris, which has so far cost its insurers some $68 million. But because of inflation and because the passengers were Americans with higher earning potential, the Chicago crash could cost as much as $200 million in claims, which may take several years to settle. Says one Los Angeles attorney: "I call it the megabucks of Chicago...