Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry House while at Radcliffe, used her private fortune to set up the Taconic Foundation, which sponsored civil rights, educational advancement, and anti-poverty programs. Her father was David Bruce, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. Mrs. Currier and her husband, Stephen Currier '49, were killed in an airplane crash in the Caribbean...
Acting on a suggestion from Mrs. Bunting, Mrs. Bruce decided this summer to donate the additional four million dollars necessary to completely cover the cost of construction. She asked that the new house be named Currier House in memory of her daughter, who died in a plane crash last year...
...strange things do begin to happen. Clunk! Lead Singer Roger Daltrey flings the microphone to the floor, wheels around and begins flailing at the drums played by Keith Moon. Crack! Peter Townshend breaks his guitar against the stage, jumps on it, then splinters it against a speaker cabinet. Crash! John Entwistle heaves his bass away and joins the others in a savage orgy of kicking and pushing at the loudspeakers, the drums and the mike stand...
Died. General Rene Cogny, 64, commander of French troops in North Viet Nam during the fall of Dienbienphu in 1954; in the crash of an Air France Caravelle jetliner that took 94 other lives; in the Mediterranean, near Nice. Known to his men as Le General Vitesse (General Hurry-Up), Cogny protested angrily when superiors ordered him to hold a defensive position at Dienbienphu, which fell to the Communists after an eight-week siege. Equally bitter was the political settlement reached at the Geneva Conference shortly thereafter. Said the general: "Too many deaths, too many deaths for nothing...
Dreadful Thing. The U.S. is thoroughly divided over the war, and there are demonstrations and civil disorders in the streets. The struggle is intensified when the President, recently nominated to run for another term, dies in the mysterious crash of Air Force...