Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police car. The car's glass was unbroken; yet it took 180 stitches to close gashes in Holt's face and head. Holt contends that the two cops dragged him from his car and beat him. The cops maintain that Holt's injuries came in the crash, but do not explain why no blood was found on the white upholstery...
...REEVES: A TOUCH OF SADNESS (RCA Victor). His records still sell as if he had not died in a plane crash four years ago. And no wonder. Reeves had an infallible touch with old-style ballads, a combination of smooth virility and naivete that inspires a secret smile of empathy in most listeners. This disk is one more of his innumerable posthumous albums, but it includes hitherto unreleased recordings of such ballads as Lonesome Waltz and Your Wedding...
...excitement? Because of all the forces that affect cities, the interstate highway program, 90% financed by federal funds, has been the least controlled. And yet today, those wide concrete corridors play as vital a role in shaping cities as once was played by rivers. Undirected, highways smash and crash through whole neighborhoods, debouch a torrent of autos into already traffic-choked streets. Owings' team, which includes engineers, traffic and transit consultants as well as architects, intends to wield its power to direct Interstate 95's path through Baltimore as delicately as a surgeon's scalpel, avoiding historic areas, living organic...
...weeks of filming on The April Fools, a romantic comedy about two sufferers of mal de mariage. And pity the folks dying to show her the town. What with costumers, hairdressers, script girls and the rest, it was almost a week before Socialites Heidi Vanderbilt and Cathy Macauley could crash through with a bash in her honor...
...black man announced that he was going to leapfrog two burning trashcans. "Clear the runway," everyone buzzed. After a false start, he came racing down the runway, leaped and landed in a crash of flames. He was not hurt. The cans were uprighted, and everyone went back to his small group...