Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plateful of stew, dispensed from the busy buses of the Diggers, a band of hippie do-gooders. Last week the sidewalks and doorways were filling with new arrivals-hippies and would-be hippies with suitcases and sleeping bags, just off the bus and looking for a place to "crash" (sleep). Wise hippies wrap themselves in scrapes against the San Francisco chill, or else wear old Army or Navy foul-weather jackets and sturdy boots. One way to identify the new arrivals is by their mod clothes: carefully tailored corduroy pants, hip-snug military jackets, snap-brimmed hats like those worn...
...Diggers; named for a 17th century society of English agricultural altruists, the latter-day Diggers provide free food, shelter and transportation for down-and-out hippies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and the East Village (where a Digger with the nom de hip of Galahad maintains a crowded "crash" pad and returns runaways to their parents). San Francisco alone has such drug-derived service organizations as HALO (Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization), the HIP Job Coop, with 6,000 names on its part-time employment roster, and Huckleberry's (homes for runaways). In Los Angeles, an outfit called Kerista...
...Traveler was never much of a paper. It's crusades and muck-racking expeditions were never very exciting, revealing, or pertinent. It was always sensational, with huge blown-up headlines ("Jayne Mansfield Dies In Crash") running across the top of the front page. And the stories that it ran were chosen, not because they provided balanced news coverage, but because they were the kind of stories that sold newspapers...
When a chartered Imperial Airlines Constellation plunged into a swamp outside Richmond, Va., in 1961, killing 74 army recruits, the struggling nonscheduled airline industry seemed to crash with it. Irked by poor safety records, corner-cutting operations and complaints from tourists stranded when companies ran out of money-and armed with a tough new law from Congress-the Civil Aeronautics Board cleaned house. Some 20 carriers went out of business, and the survivors were forced to adhere to rigorous standards...
...June 19, 1968 the asteroid Icarus, which is nearly a mile in diameter, will crash into the mid-Atlantic, 2,000 miles east of Florida. Its impact - the equivalent of a 500,000-megaton bomb blast - will splash out some 1,000 cubic miles of sea water and form a crater 15 miles across in the ocean floor. Tidal waves 100 ft. high will sweep across coastal cities on both sides of the ocean, and earthquakes 100 times worse than any ever recorded will be felt all over the world. Clearly, Icarus must be stopped. No expense will be spared...