Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Lance Reventlow, 36, auto racer and heir to the Woolworth five-and-ten fortune; in a plane crash; near Aspen, Colo. The son of Barbara Hutton and the second of her seven husbands, Reventlow devoted most of his time and much of his $25 million inheritance to his passion for racing. Though he mockingly described himself as "a playboy," his win in Nassau's 1958 Governor's Cup Race-in a car he both designed and drove-established Reventlow's reputation as a serious competitor. His love of auto racing and his refusal to give...
Fischer's idea of a big evening is secluding himself in a hotel room and ?slam! crash! chop!?working out a new king's side attack. He always requests a room without a view lest he be distracted from the game. If he ventures out, he always takes his trusty leather pocket set with him. On elevators, in taxis, between dinner courses?he is always at it, busily fiddling away like some old crone at her knitting. "Why should I bother with anything else?" he asks. "Chess is my profession...
...might seem. In tournaments he sits transfixed, his foot tapping rapidly to the beat of some inner fury. Playing through solitary games in his room, he slams home each move with cries of "Crunch!" "Chop!" "Smash!" "Crash!" U.S. Grand Master Robert Byrne suggests that the demon in him is his "pursuit of the Idea of the game, in the Platonic sense. All of us players have that ideal. But Bobby knows how to embody it. He has the ability to overcome the chaotic mess and the complexity of modern chess, the baroque scramble, and isolate a single theme, a single...
That rate could be cut if the states would pass laws making the wearing of seat belts obligatory. Local police would enforce the law, passing out summonses to drivers or riders caught unbelted. Crash-injury experts estimate that auto deaths could be reduced by at least one-third if everybody used seat belts all the time. Only a minority of drivers do so now. Further, tough federal standards should be enacted for the licensing of drivers. Some states and localities are inexcusably casual in granting licenses to obvious incompetents. Children of 14, mental defectives, drug addicts and even people collecting...
...there was little investigative material outside of trying to track down, no less, the Route 2 sniper. And the editors still love the Record dialect in headlines: "U.S. Confuses Red Radar, Cripples Red Air Defense." Not to mention the non-sequiturs like "List 29 Americans Dead in British Jet Crash" or "Hub Tolls Grief for 9 Firemen...