Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe this, but you may want to write sports anyway. That makes sense. Whether it's watching girls and guys run around a track, crash into each other on a field or hit a little ball with a long piece of wood, we cover...
...mystery that surrounds every F-111 loss. The plane flies not only under enemy radar but too low to be tracked by American radar or by line-of-sight radio communications. That explains why no emergency messages have ever been received from an F-111 pilot before a combat crash. The planes also fly singly and at night, rather than in groups during daylight. Thus when they go down, there are no friendly witnesses. In fact, no one knows when an F-111 is missing until it fails to make radio contact or is overdue at its home base...
That still does not explain why the planes crash in the first place. Although the F-111 was designed as an all-weather craft, some flyers speculate that dense rain squalls in Viet Nam somehow foil the plane's complex TFR (terrain-following radar), which permits it to skim treetops at 200 ft. above ground at speeds of more than 500 m.p.h. Others suggest that the dense tropical humidity in Southeast Asia somehow damages its complex electronic circuits governing flight and navigational controls. But no one really knows for sure. After returning from an F-111 mission over Laos...
...pregnant young widow (Patty Duke) spends three days riding buses from Los Angeles to Minnesota to visit her mother-in-law, whom she has never met. Patty's husband, before his death in a military-plane crash, had assured her she would like his mother, but the hard, hostile woman (Rosemary Murphy) she finally meets bears little resemblance to his fond descriptions. Patty's only friend at the forbidding family estate is her husband's half-witted sister (Sian Barbara Allen), who babbles incomprehensibly while pressing a newspaper clipping into Patty's palm. Apparently a homicidal...
...issue of Red Flag, the party's ideological journal. Sinologists see two reasons why party leaders have resurrected it at this time. One is to help convince surviving cadres of the Lin Piao faction that the former Defense Minister, who was reportedly killed in a plane crash in Mongolia in September 1971 after the discovery of his plot to assassinate Mao, had been acting against the Chairman's will even as early as 1966. The other reason for its publication is probably to dissociate Mao from the excesses of the Cultural Revolution...