Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eastern comic-opera setting is strong. To many, Sihanouk appears so eccentric that, as one Western diplomat puts it, "everyone wants to be his psychiatrist." Various theories have been developed to account for his moods, including the fact that every so often he goes on a crash diet; U.S. Foreign Service dispatches to Washington frequently start: "This being the diet season, it is useless ..." A man full of energy and diffuse talents, Sihanouk has been known at various times as a playboy, saxophonist, composer, lyricist, painter, sportsman, linguist, scenarist, cinematographer, Asian method actor and rice-bowl philosopher...
Spaghetti & Prunes. Winnie Bird came a long way from Missouri, where she was born in 1897. Daughter of a poor railroad employee, the tall, blonde young beauty came East, married Wallis C. Bird, a Standard Oil heir. In 1941 Bird was killed in a plane crash, leaving Winnie with an income of $300,000 a year and a desire to crash European society. But World War II intervened, and it was not until 1948 that Winnie left the U.S. to live in Europe, where she divided her time between a five-room suite at the Crillon in Paris and smaller...
...must have flown it in," marveled a California highway patrolman. "You can't drive in there." The crumpled silver-grey Ferrari was wedged between the pines in a canyon in California's High Sierras, where Singer Vic Damone, 35, crash-landed after skidding on a patch of snowy pavement. The car was a total wreck, but Damone and Wife Judy escaped with only minor dents. Alas, Groaner Damone had bought the Italian sports car only five hours earlier for $15,000, which is about what he earned during a ten-day engagement at the Reno nightclub owned...
Incredible Crash. Is this what really happened? Yes it is, say Russian Science Writers Genrikh Saulovich Altov and Valentina Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova. It is their carefully detailed attempt to account for the incredible crash that rocked the Tungus region of Siberia over half a century ago. Something certainly landed on the Tungus. The craters are there, and men still remember the blast...
Died. Emerson Wirt Axe, 69, Wall Street securities analyst, manager of the Axe-Houghton group of five mutual funds (combined assets: $300 million), a onetime champion marksman, fencing, judo and chess expert (he once played six simultaneous games blindfolded in an exhibition), who predicted the 1929 crash six weeks in advance as well as the turnabout in July 1932, ran the business from a 40-room turreted castle in suburban Tarrytown, N.Y.; of leukemia; in Manhattan...