Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regularly accompanied her husband, Brigadier General Truong Quang An, to the front, carrying a commando's short-stock M-16 rifle in one hand and cakes and gifts for the troops in the other. Two months ago, she and her husband were both killed in a helicopter crash en route to the besieged Special Forces camp...
...inability to move." In treating patients, Dr. Alston has found that the causes go far beyond the experience of a particularly rough flight. "It has always been a multiple thing," he says. For a few, the fear may result from a death in the family resulting from an air crash. For others, the airplane may represent separation-from both the ground and loved ones. Deep feelings of guilt often play a role. "A man who feels guilty toward his wife," says Alston, "expects a catastrophe, such as a crash, as punishment...
...until the Soviets, in their own good time, release more information will U.S. space scientists be certain of the significance of the flight. It is the first manned Russian space mission since April 1967, when Colonel Vladimir Komarov was killed in the crash of Soyuz 1. It seems almost certain that it is ultimately aimed at the moon; for one thing, the time is not right for a trip to any of the planets...
...school, culture-loving Georgians decided to pool their efforts and put them all under one roof in the new, $13 million Memorial Arts Center, the work of two local architectural firms. Dedicated to the memory of 122 Atlanta arts patrons who were killed in a Paris plane crash in 1962, the center opened last month with a splendid exhibition of 59 paintings and drawings loaned by Paris museums. Alas for good intentions, the building itself has a cold, pretentious look and is, in effect, a massive box with a portico of sticklike, white concrete columns tacked on to suggest...
...author concerns herself with the domination of the strong by the weak; "they have such incredible staying power," one character laments. Eva is the formless, feckless person who flouts the schemes and designs of subtler minds. At 25, she is an heiress. Her mother died in a plane crash; her father, a homosexual tycoon, was a suicide. Her guardian was her father's partner in business and in bed. He alternately tries to manipulate her for her money or avoid having to confront...