Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX. Survivors of a plane crash in the Sahara, among them James Stewart, Hardy Kruger and Richard Attenborough, struggle to construct an airworthy vehicle from the wreckage and work up plenty of excitement in the attempt...
...escape plan was simple but to the point-Heinrich-Heine-Strasse Checkpoint, that is. Winfried Zippel, 20, an East Berlin mason and truck driver by profession, would steal a construction truck. Then he and his pal, Heinz Trochim, 21, a machinist, would crash the Wall to freedom. It being a warm summer night, the cocky pair tanked up on beer before setting out. The celebration was premature: before they had driven a single block, a pair of East German S.S.D. (State Security) cars squealed to a halt in front of them, and a clutch of cops jumped out. Beery protestations...
...home course. Besides, Brakeman Sergio Siorpaes had designed a faster, more maneuverable sled with motorcycle shock absorbers and a central pivot that permitted both sets of runners to bank independently on curves. "I have never felt more like racing," said Monti after testing the sled. Even a crash failed to dampen his enthusiasm: during practice last month, he was clattering through Cortina's Curva di Arrive at 65 m.p.h. when the new sled hit a hidden crevice and stopped dead. Brakeman Siorpaes was hurled clear and knocked cold. Monti smacked into the front of the bob, cracking...
...nuclear physicist, a Nehru protege who, after taking over the Indian Atomic Energy Commission in 1947, built with U.S. and other foreign help a capability that by now has put the country within 18 months of having a Bomb (which it says it doesn't want); in the crash of an Air-India 707 jetliner on Mont Blanc, killing all 117 aboard...
Eroica, made in 1957 by Polish Director Andrzej Munk, who died in a 1961 auto crash, reaches the U.S. with a reputation as a classic. But Munk's film stands up less well than Ozu's under the glare of posthumous appraisal. It looks like a roughing out of the masterwork that it was meant to be-one angry young Pole's bitter, blackly comic jeer at wartime myths of courage and honor...