Word: crash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McCarvilles filed suit against the Air Force, asking $87,758 in damages resulting from the crash. The Tjernagels claimed damages amounting to $112,000. Though federal authorities gave the McCarvilles $2,000 and the Tjernagels $5,000 in "emergency funds," they argued that the planes -and the responsibility-belonged to the states of Iowa and Wisconsin. Iowa replied that the National Guard planes were on federally approved missions when the crashes occurred, thus making the Federal Government accountable. As the haggling continued, the two families settled into makeshift quarters -the McCarvilles in a 16-ft. by 14-ft. chicken coop...
...have flown more than 3,000 combat missions. Currently, the Thieu regime is mounting a morale-stiffening campaign around Captain Tran The Vinh, a Vietnamese ace who was credited with knocking out 21 North Vietnamese tanks before he died two weeks ago, at the age of 25, in the crash of his shell-torn Skyraider. Posters of Vinh, making a jaunty thumbs-up sign, appeared all over Saigon last week...
...married a fighter pilot, Benjamin Atwood, in 1945. She declines to talk about the marriage except to say that they had three children. Atwood died in a plane crash in 1967, many years after they were divorced. In 1952, she married Cameron Randolph Beard, a flag manufacturer, and they had two children. He was "very wealthy, very wonderful, and also, he was an alcoholic. So there's me and five children, a drunk husband and two dogs." One son was injured in an automobile accident ("You can still see the tire prints across his chest"), and she tried...
When Bernard Cornfeld's mutual-fund empire came tumbling down in a spectacular mid-1970 crash, his main company, Investors Overseas Services, sank so low that moneymen might well have figured it had nowhere to go but up. Not so. Under Cornfeld's successors, I.O.S.'s troubles have been endless. The several mutual funds that it manages have gone on dwindling in value, to about $982 million last week, from $2.3 billion in the late 1960s. Roughly 300,000 investors, mostly Europeans, still have money tied up in I.O.S.-and they are hurting. Anybody...
...about the Dodger infielder will be familiar to former members of Happy Felton's Knothole Gang. There is Robinson, first Negro in the majors: the racial abuse he endured on and off the field, his testiness, the later tragedy of his son's delinquency and fatal car crash. What Kahn does is rekindle for a younger, less patient generation the pride of a remarkable athlete who wanted to be recognized and paid as such. That Robinson eventually be came a prosperous, overweight Republican has a perfect and glorious consistency...