Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parke-Bernet Galleries and London's Sotheby's and Christie's have been bidding for the job. Last week it went to Parke-Bernet, whose auction next November should make art history. In 1928 Erickson paid Duveen Bros. $750,000 for the Rembrandt Aristotle. After the crash, he sold it back for $500,000, but in 1936 bought it again for $590,000. With the art market of today, Aristotle seems a cinch to break the $1,000,000 mark, which would be the highest price ever paid for a painting at an auction...
...Lord Salisbury. "We were just young people going around together." says Ormsby-Gore. Then Jack Kennedy's kid sister Kathleen ("Kick") up and married Ormsby-Gore's first cousin, the Marquess of Hartington. The marquess was killed in World War II and Kathleen in a 1948 airplane crash, but the friendship between Jack and David endured...
Never in its history has the U.S. tried to do anything so intricate in so short a time as its missile program. The nation has achieved notable feats in an undertaking that calls for crash construction of the most complicated equipment ever devised. Failures are inevitable in exploring the unknown. Batting averages are not the full test of success in the missile league, but misses do cost millions-and of 193 attempted launchings of U.S. satellites and Atlas and Titan missiles since 1957, only 118 have been completely successful. The original goal of the Mercury astronaut program...
...fabric is replaced with cloth woven of heat-resistant metal wires, the Flex Wing may be able to ease space vehicles down through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. One candidate for this treatment, say Ryan engineers, might be the elaborate eight-engine booster of the Saturn rocket, which will crash to costly destruction a short time after launch unless it is landed gently...
Died. Tony Bettenhausen, 44, stocky, crew-cut auto racer, two-time U.S. big-car champion (1951 and 1958), a scarred survivor of 28 crackups; in a flaming crash on the Indianapolis Speedway when the Steady Special he was testing for a friend on the eve of time trials for the Memorial Day race lost a 1? cotter pin, careened into a wall at nearly 145 m.p.h...