Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stunned by a crash landing that sheared the wings and tail from his Skyraider, Dengler stepped bleary-eyed into a world of muck, vines and violence that stood in odd contrast to his tidy, air-conditioned stateroom on the carrier Ranger. Abandoning his radio, .38-cal. pistol and dehydrated rations, Dengler ducked into the bush-but was jumped by Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas...
Laotian Roulette. When he came to, his guards amused themselves with Laotian roulette: "I was tied to a tree and used for target practice-the guards tried to see how close they could come to hitting me." Finally, three weeks after his crash, Dengler was led into a bamboo stockade somewhere near the trail and locked up in crude, wooden "footcuffs" with six other U.S. flyers. The prisoners were fed a handful of rice twice a week, supplemented their diet with snakes and anything else that crawled through their hut. "Once," Dengler recalled, "we caught a snake that had swallowed...
...situation comedy about the marriage of a Jewish boy and a Catholic girl titled Abie's Irish Rose, which ran for a record 2,327 performances on Broadway*and earned her, all told, an estimated $15 million, most of which she lost in the 1929 stock-market crash; of a heart attack; in an Englewood Cliffs, N.J., nursing home, where her fees were paid by the Actors' Fund, a charity for indigent theater people...
After sizing up Truk, Earhart headed for Rowland. Goerner guesses that she soon got hopelessly lost in a tropical storm and turned the Electra north and west, away from her destination. By calculating the Electra's speed and fuel consumption, Goerner figures that the plane must have crash-landed near the beach of Mili atoll in the southeastern Marshall Islands. It was from that place, he says, that Earhart cranked out SOS messages on the plane's emergency radio. This, Goerner believes, accounts for the fact that a number of radio operators reported picking up messages from...
...part - 18 secretaries to answer his fan mail, a 280-acre estate near Baltimore, 300 Great Danes, and a gold-trimmed Marmon limousine. He made and spent $6,000,000 in five years, and then his secret got out - a wife and five children. The fans faded, the 1929 crash wiped out what little he had saved, and he spent the rest of his life earning a modest living from radio soap operas and TV guest appearances...