Word: crashing
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Perhaps the truest measure of the U.S. Peace Corps-of its creed, its ideals, its constructive naivete and its basic worth-was put by a Peace Corpsman who died in the line of duty. Just before he was killed in a plane crash in Colombia while returning to his Peace Corps mission from a short holiday, David Crozier, 23, of West Plains, Mo., wrote to his parents: "Should it come to it, I had rather give my life trying to help someone than to give my life looking down a gun barrel at them...
Galloping Whimsy. Though much of Partch's "corporeal music" is pleasing and oddly moving, the clucks, gurgles, thumps and thunders of his instruments sound like the score to Yojimbo, an effect that is reinforced by a recurrent and highly menacing meeeEEEOOOW! from his strings and an occasional unspecific crash that sounds like a Boo player collapsing...
...about 120 m.p.h.), then pulled into the pits, and was not seen again. The U.S.'s Phil Hill, driving an Aston Martin, topped a hummock at 150 m.p.h. to find a car rolling over and over directly in front of him; swerving off the road to avoid a crash, Hill damaged his gearbox beyond repair. When the checkered flag finally fluttered, only 13 cars, out of 49 starters, were still running. And the winner was a rear-engined Ferrari, driven by Italy's Ludovico Scarfiotti and Lorenzo Bandini, who covered 2,832 miles at an average speed...
...sales reached records last year, per capita smoking of cigarettes in the U.S. declined for the first time since 1954. Profit margins dropped for every major U.S. tobacco company except Philip Morris, and cigarette company stocks are still far below the highs set before last year's market crash. The industry finds itself under harsh fire from doctors, teachers, parents and legislators. The U.S. Air Force has stopped distributing cigarettes in lunch packs to flight crews. U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry is preparing to release a definitive smoking-and-health report that tobaccomen fear will be widely damaging...
...Nude. The week leading up to the debate in the Commons consisted mostly of talk-but what talk. Christine Keeler, the cause of it all, was strangely irrepressible and outwardly serene amid the tumbling of facades and the crash of reputations. Blossoming forth in ever more dazzling photographs, she became Britain's fastest-rising fallen woman. She was besieged by film and nightclub offers and incorporated herself as Christine Keeler, Ltd. She even landed, uncaptioned, on the cover of the austere Economist...