Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...virtuosity would overshadow an ordinary pianist but not the late William Kapell, who with equal ease is first sensitive accompanist, then forceful protagonist. It was on his way to California to complete recording the Brahms triptych with Heifetz that the 31-year-old Kapell was killed in a plane crash twelve years...
Such men could hardly be expected to hear the hum of machinery that was changing their world, the increasingly impudent demands of the newly prosperous middle classes, even the crash of anarchist bombs. Says Tuchman: "So enchanting was the vision of a stateless society, without government, without law, without ownership of property, in which, corrupt institutions having been swept away, man would be free to be good as God intended him, that six heads of state were assassinated for its sake in the 20 years before 1914. Not one could qualify as a tyrant. Their deaths were the gestures...
...overloaded their favorite plane with a lot of World War II heroics. But their love is palpable-the book itself is a retool job on an earlier book published in 1959-and the DC-3's legend is durable enough to warrant it. One Air Force model, having crash-landed on an ice island off Alaska five years ago, still stands there, a monument on a 30-foot pedestal of ice (see cut). In 1946, a DC-3 flew into a Swiss Alp, inflicting minor injury on itself and passengers, who disembarked. Thereupon, the plane sank out of sight...
Less successful was the car that on Christmas night swerved out of a line of vehicles at another checkpoint, tried to crash the barrier pole. Communist guards, their marksmanship enhanced by the lights on a 20-ft.-high Christmas tree they had cynically erected near the Wall, opened fire. Horst Schöneberger, 24, of Dortmund, West Germany, was wounded and hauled away with two East German girls in the car (the Reds sentenced him to twelve years at hard labor). The driver, Horst's brother Heinz, 27, sprinted for the boundary 15 feet away. Just...
...Salt Lake City wreck, most of the 43 victims were burned to death. Thus, the CAB recommended that the 727's fuel lines, which run through the craft's belly to the three rear-mounted engines, be relocated to withstand the shock of a crash landing. In, both cases, CAB investigators found evidence that synthetic cabin material such as soundproofing, when exposed to fire and soaked by jet kerosene fuel or hydraulic fluid, may exude deadly gases; survivors of the Salt Lake City crash reported that fumes "seared and burned" their lungs. As a result, the CAB called...