Word: crashes
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...Count Crash. Count Wolfgang von Trips, who could have managed his family's Hemmersback Castle in the German Rhineland as a moneyed aristocrat, had a desperate desire to win. All through the summer, Von Trips, 33, and Phil Hill, 34, of Santa Monica, Calif., teammates in Italian Auto Magnate Enzo Ferrari's racing contingent, had dueled across the Continent for the world title.* Before the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the pale, slim German nobleman was just in front of the taut, nervous American in the competition for the Grand Prix championship. Victory at Monza would have given...
...Trips. In 1956 his Ferrari spun out of control, rolled over eight times without injuring him. Just two years later, he took the first turn too fast, rolled once more, and suffered a fractured knee that kept him out of racing for a year. Von Trips was always "Count Crash" after that, but he was driving more carefully this year, taking fewer risks; and he took heart because Monza had not had a fatal accident since...
Died. Brigadier Joseph Michel, 44, Sandhurst-trained Ghanaian army officer who. the day before his death, had been named chief of staff of U.N. forces in the Congo: of injuries following a plane crash; in Kintampo, Ghana...
...record air crash came last Dec. 16. when a TWA Super Constellation collided with a United Air Lines DC-8 jet over New York City, killed 134 (TIME...
...long ago he belonged to that tiny covey of airmen who might some day soar to Chief of Staff. So when he began a teaching stint at the new Air Force Academy and did well enough to be asked to stay on, Brigadier General McDermott braced for a career crash landing. The Air Force moves up flyers and commanders, but it will not give top rank to teachers...