Word: crash
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Analyzing the election results in New York were two TIME staffers well versed in the quirks of French politics. Reporter-Researcher Judith B. Prowda studied in Paris for three years, one of them at the prestigious Institut d 'Etudes Politiques, "a useful prelude to the crash course that French voters have just given us." Associate Editor Thomas A. Sancton, who wrote the cover story, spent five years in Paris, working as a freelance journalist and completing a doctorate in French history. Sums up Historian Sancton: "I see Mitterrand in the tradition of 19th century socialist reformers, neither Marxist...
...helm hard up. I had scarcely time to obey the order, when I heard a loud cry from several voices at once, that the whale was coming foul of the ship. Scarcely had the sound of their voices reached my ears when it was followed by a tremendous crash, the whale had struck the ship with his head under the larboard fore chains at the water's edge with such force as to shock every man upon his feet. The whale then getting under the ship's bottom came up under the starboard quarters. This gave the mate...
Rajiv, a Boeing 737 pilot for Indian Airlines until last month, understates his potential influence. Since Sanjay, then 33, died in the crash of a stunt plane, Rajiv has been, as he puts it, "helping Mummy" as an unofficial assistant. As the closest of all advisers to Indira, he could easily follow Sanjay's path to become the second most influential person in India...
DIED. Jaime RoldÓs Aguilera, 40, President of Ecuador and youngest elected head of state in South America; in a plane crash that also killed his wife Marta, 39, Defense Minister Marco Subia Martinez, 51, and six others; in the Andes Mountains. A Guayaquil lawyer, Roldos entered the 1978 presidential race as a stand-in populist candidate for his politically prominent uncle-by-marriage (who was ruled ineligible to run) and went on to win a runoff the following year by the largest margin in his nation's history, ending nine years of dictatorship...
...Bamford and Maureen Smales, a liberal Johannesburg couple with three small children. As the rioting spreads, they turn to July, the black man who has been their servant for 15 years. He piles them into a van and guides them to his ancestral village, nearly 400 miles away. This "crash from the suburb to the wilderness" takes three torturous days and nights to accomplish...