Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the tail section that the only survivors came. "They came out from the fog and the trees," reported a farmer's wife, Mrs. Margaret Bailey, who heard the crash and drove to the scene. "One of them said, T am the Turkish Prime Minister. Quickly get help. There are others trapped...
Fifteen people, including Menderes' Minister of Information and Chief of Cabinet, the managing director of the Turkish Airlines, and an M.P., died in the crash. But back home, near the mosque on the Golden Horn where Adnan Menderes worships, the throats of 200 sheep were cut in gratitude that Menderes was among the ten survivors...
...bruised ribs, the Premier was moved from Mrs. Bailey's cottage to a private room on the third floor of London Clinic. It was there that Adnan Menderes, in pajamas and dressing gown, received British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis three days after the crash. Somebody brought them one of the hospital's fountain pens. And in that most undiplomatic of settings, the three men signed the agreement that ended the four-year dispute over Cyprus and brought the island the promise of independence for the first time since the 12th century...
...this with the authority of a little girl who used to sing for her supper on the streets of Montmartre, but was too proud to pick up the pennies. A friend did that for her. Nor did her later success ever take her far from trouble. A 1949 airplane crash killed World Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, who is still remembered as her great love. A marriage to French Singer Jacques Peals ended in divorce. Says she: "I am a very faithful woman, very serious about marriage. I have a lover who came with me to America, but he has gone...
Died. Marshall Teague, 37, auto racer, A.A.A. national stock car champion in 1952 and 1954; in the 500-yd. rolling crash of a new Sumar Streamliner; during a test run on the new speed track at Daytona Beach...