Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, the most traditional part of the football weekend--the post-game coktail party--cannot really be scheduled. One just has to crash it, pretending to be in search of a long-lost buddy from the Other Place, pleading the need for a brotherly drink, or just demanding the return of a purloined date...
Yemen in turn is loudly threatening to invade Saudi Arabia. Although the little country has no qualified flyer (its one pilot survived three crash landings and has not yet received a license), the Sallal regime boasts that it will return enemy attacks "as far as Amman," the Jordanian capital. With Nasser's belligerent backing, Sallal proclaimed a new "Republic of the Arabian Peninsula," laying claim to about three dozen kingdoms, sheikdoms and sultanates near Aden, most of which are under British protection...
Born. To Angler Biddle Duke, 46, impeccable State Department Chief of Protocol, heir to an American Tobacco Co. fortune, who lost his third wife in a plane crash last year, and blonde, bubbly Robin Chandler Duke, 39, onetime boss of Pepsi-Cola's public relations department: a son; in Washington...
...case was considered so important that the entire nine-man panel of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals sat in on it. The question: If a passenger dies in an airplane crash, can his beneficiaries collect only the maximum damage claims allowed by the state in which the accident happened? In a decision that will profoundly affect insurance companies and airlines, the court said no by a six-to-three vote...
Involved in the ruling was a Northeast Airlines Convair that left New York's La Guardia Airport on Aug. 15, 1958, crashed while approaching Nantucket Island, Mass., and killed 25. One New York passenger's widow, Mrs. John S. Pearson, sued Northeast in a New York court, won $160,000. When the airline appealed, a three-judge federal panel upheld its claim that since the crash occurred in Massachusetts (where claims at the time were limited to $15,000), the case should have been tried there. But the full court, in a rehearing, reversed the decision. Said...