Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outspoken Republican Governor, a World War II bomber pilot who later served in the state senate, won the governorship in 1960 on a hold-the-budget plank, condemned the United Nations as "a forum for the enemies" and refused to proclaim U.N. Day in Montana; in the crash of a state Air National Guard C-47 into a Montana mountainside...
...collection of related short stories. The best of them are case histories of shattered men, skillfully underwritten but developing clues with all the suspense of detective fiction, moving toward the revelation of a "forgotten" experience. Under Pentothal, a waist-gunner tells Newman how he survived a B-24 crash in North Africa. In the wreckage he stumbled across the other waist-gunner-headless. As he ran from the burning plane he heard the pilot, his buddy, calling him by name for help. The plane then exploded...
...jump of ten pages in the score to cut out some of the more tortuous vocal passages, and Baritone Edelmann came on again as Wotan, in brighter voice after his rest. Happily, they all made it to the final curtain. "I felt like the pilot who decides on a crash landing," said Leinsdorf. "We made it without the plane going up in flames...
Split Teeth. The score was short of perfect, but the fact that he rode at all reflects the skill and daring that make Kenny McLean, at 22, the Rodeo Cow boys Association's Rookie of the Year, and the hottest young bronc rider ever to crash the big-time rodeo circuit. In almost any other sport, McLean would have been riding the bench. The night before, he split two teeth and was carted to the hospital unconscious after tumbling heavily from an evil-tempered bronc. "Ken ny's horse took a run from the gate," says fellow bronc...
Monro said he too thought the training programs last summer were expensive. But, he said, "it was important to train a lot of people in a hurry last year. The colleges put together programs in a great hurry." This "crash program" approach was naturally expensive, Monro claimed...