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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malcolm was also a savage speaker. After the 1962 plane crash in France that killed 121 whites from Georgia, he rose before a Los Angeles audience and said: "I would like to announce a very beautiful thing that has happened. I got a wire from God today. He really answered our prayers over in France. He dropped an airplane out of the sky with over 120 white people on it because the Muslims believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. We will continue to pray and we hope that every day another plane falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Death and Transfiguration | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...President also went out of his way to consult with Republican Dwight Eisenhower-sometimes a sign that a crash landing is in prospect. Hearing that Ike was in Washington for a routine physical examination, Johnson invited the old soldier to the White House for a two-hour talk, followed by lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: We Will Be Far Better Off Facing the Issue | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...poor weather, touched back down at Oakland, Calif., 27,750 miles and 57 days later-only to have a rival, Jerry Mock, flying a route 4,000 miles shorter, beat her by 25 days; of injuries sustained when the rented Cessna 181 she was flying with a friend crashed near Big Pine, Calif., six weeks after she walked away unscathed from the crash of her own Piper Apache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 26, 1965 | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...apart vertically, three to four miles laterally, a safe distance on anybody's scope. Yet distances can be deceptive in the air, and the investigators recognized the possibility that Carson might have swung his ship into a fatal fall because he believed a mid-air crash was imminent. The piston-driven plane was not equipped with the all but indestructible flight recorder, which indicates every yaw, pitch and twitch of the controls on U.S. jet airliners, and which probably would bear evidence of the cause of such an accident. No matter what the ocean bottom yields, the cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Good Night | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...tombstone, he wrote his first song, To Know Him, Is to Love Him. It sold 1,200,000 copies and has become an alltime teen classic. Phil marked time for two years working as a court stenotypist. Then, at 19, he moved to Manhattan and tried to crash "Teen Pan Alley" only to discover that "95% of the music business is heavily infiltrated by morons. If they hadn't been so greedy and vicious, I wouldn't have tried to control them." Fortunately, as Phil puts it, "I function well in a world of hostility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: A Giant Stands 5 Ft. 7 In. | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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