Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charges of Boondoggling. Power men have long dreamed of putting the great "Quoddy" to work. In 1919 a Boston engineer named Dexter Parshall Cooper drew up a plan that would require an estimated $150 million in private capital. That idea collapsed with the 1929 market crash. Then in 1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt-best known summer visitor to neighboring Campobello Island-started boosting the Quoddy and actually got $7,000,000 from Congress to start the project. But F.D.R.'s hopes died too, amid Republican charges of "boondoggling on the Quoddy." Two years ago a U.S.Canadian International Joint Commission completed...
...less. He gave Soviet approval to a limited ban which would cover all tests except those underground, repeating his familiar opposition to onsite inspections of possible underground blasts. As usual, Gromyko argued that such inspections were unnecessary anyway, in view of long-range seismic detection devices. When the sudden crash of an accidentally overturned chair startled the delegates, Gromyko said quickly: "This is confirmation that everyone detects it." Growled Hailsham: "It still needs inspection...
...rescue helicopter lifted from a barge 2½ miles out in the Pacific, off San Diego, at the site of a sewer-construction project. Strapped to a pontoon was an injured workman, his leg broken by a whiplashing cable. Suddenly the chopper tilted and crashed into the water. Aboard the barge, preparing to inspect the pipe 217 ft. down on the ocean floor, Jon Lindbergh, 31, deep-sea-diver son of Air Hero Charles Lindbergh, stripped off his gear, dived in and swam 100 yds. to the crash. Working under water, Lindbergh swiftly cut the injured man free from...
...Espionage has no continuing star, just a succession of eager wolves in Bond clothes, and CBS's The Great Adventure will be a series of stories from American history, including Barney Oldfield, Civil War submarines, Sitting Bull, the crash of the dirigible Akron, Boss Tweed...
...Camus' life was devoted to this quest, and it was still not ended when he died in a car crash at 46. In these notebooks (the first of three volumes to be published), Camus recorded his early speculating, tentative theories and spontaneous observations. Like notes found scattered along a trail, they not only indicate his destination but also why he chose it. This volume covers his youth in his native Algeria, summer's sojourn in Europe, and the first somber years in occupied Paris...