Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning after the telecast, Nixon gathered his Cabinet and their wives at the Shoreham for a day-long briefing on the problems the new Administration will face. The wives were invited, Nixon explained, because "I want them to be there on the takeoffs-so that they may avoid a crash landing a little later." (Some of the wives dutifully took notes.) Meanwhile, Luci Johnson Nugent started her opposite number, Tricia Nixon, and an entourage of 33 children aged six to 27-all of them offspring of the incoming Cabinet-off on a VIP tour of Washington that included lunch...
COUNT ME GONE by Annabel and Edgar Johnson (Simon & Schuster, $3.95). An 18-year-old boy attempts to discover himself by rehashing four wild days that led to an automobile crash...
...would enter what NASA euphemistically describes as an "unstable orbit." After rounding the moon, it would begin heading back toward earth, but not fast enough to escape the moon's gravitational pull. Depending on the length of the abortive burn, Apollo would sooner or later fall back and crash into the lunar surface...
With no more aid forthcoming, Eagle folded. And in British aviation circles, its crash raised an obvious question: With costs climbing and the government still favoring itself, how many more independents will fail? An answer was not long in coming. Last week smaller Transglobe Airways Ltd. (seven planes) announced that it was closing out its transatlantic charter business and also going into bankruptcy...
...offensive centers around Dover, and, occasionally, Harrison clears a side and sets a pick so Dover can drive one-on-one against his man. He's very hard to stop in that situation. There are one or two potential problems with the set-up: first, unless Hardy and Johnson crash the boards successfully, offensive rebounds will be scarce. Second, none of the three starting outside men has the kind of shooting touch which can break open games and loosen up enemy defenses...