Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scarcely more salubrious are the "crash pads"-communal sleeping quarters rented by older hippies, who run them as free hotels. They are largely responsible for an alarming increase in venereal disease-up 1,000% in West Hollywood in the past five years. As an alternative to the crash pads, San Francisco's church-financed Huckleberry's for Runaways provides "fugitives" with food and shelter while setting up channels through which they can re-establish relationships with their parents. Operating out of a Victorian house at 1 Broderick Street in the Haight-Ashbury district, Huckleberry's has handled...
...Mary Poppins. Cutesy Star Sally Field, 21, plays a swinging nun whose starchy cornet launches her airborne in the wind cur rents around her Puerto Rican convent. Naturally, her antics appall the stern, stereotyped mother superior, but Sister Sally manages endless good works and bad gags, such as a crash landing in an Army garbage dump...
Benny Boudreaux, 40, from the bayou country of Louisiana, lost the use of his legs from an injury to his spinal cord in an auto crash while he was in the Air Force. Like most of the 1 00,000 U.S. paraplegics (both legs disabled) and quadriplegics (both arms and legs disabled), Boudreaux was constantly prey to excruciating decubitus ulcers, better known as bedsores. In the Veterans Administration Hospital in Memphis, he was condemned to lie in bed, face down, so no bony prominences could cause pressure and ulcers...
...also the first model to have Ford's "energy-absorbing" front end, which, with a specially designed 18-in. section in the car's frame, is supposed to collapse, accordion-style, in a head-on collision, thus soften crash impact...
After the plane crash, three men, including Russel G. Davis, lecturer on Education and associate director of the Center for Studies in Education and Development, assumed responsibility for completing the report...