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Died. James E. Allen Jr., 60, former U.S. Commissioner of Education; with his wife Florence in the crash of a sightseeing plane near Peach Springs, Ariz. Allen, who earned his doctorate in education at Harvard, won a reputation for tough-minded innovation while serving 14 years as chief of New York State's labyrinthine school system. During that period he was castigated for his stands against prayer in the schools and in favor of busing. Thus when the Nixon Administration called him to Washington in 1969, the appointment was a surprise. What followed was not. Allen was soon...
...Punctured Romance, The Pullman Bride and Modern Times. "Moviemaking was great fun then," recalled Conklin. "A picture consisted of a lot of chases and a plot that was tacked on when we finished shooting." All but wiped out by the advent of talkies and the 1929 stock market crash, Conklin wound up in a Los Angeles department store playing yet another lovable hirsute character: Santa Claus...
...most sensational possibility to surface last week was that a high-level defector might have a role in the political turmoil. The Soviet news agency Tass picked up a Mongolian dispatch concerning the crash "for unknown reasons" of a Chinese air force jet in northeast Mongolia only 60 miles from the Soviet border. The crash took place on the night of Sept. 12-the day before the air force was so suddenly grounded. Nine charred bodies, several weapons and unspecified "documents" were found in the wreckage...
...Litton. He began by acquiring electronics firms that helped to make Litton into a huge conglomerate, then was in charge of finances and, most recently, ran three groups of subsidiary companies. In the process, Gray won a reputation for coolness and dedication. After he was in a motorcycle crash in 1964, he set up office in his hospital room and directed operations while still flat on his back...
When the red warning light flashed on the instrument panel of the Israeli air-force helicopter, one passenger had good reason to be alarmed. Said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who suffered a broken back in a 1964 plane crash: "I've been through this before. Fasten your seat belts." The order was unnecessary; the chopper carrying the Senator and wife Joan Kennedy to a meeting with Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made a safe emergency landing on a beach south of Tel Aviv, giving the Kennedys an opportunity to stroll around and collect sea shells. Said the unflustered Joan...