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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actors acting. Oooh, spilling their guts out into the camera, "I'm so empty I'm so depressed I've got so much anger in me Watch me crack up Boo-hoo isn't life depressing Look at those waves I'm gonna walk into the surf Whoosh whoosh crash splash." Bleah. That's Woody Allen trying to be arty. All that Freudian bullshit.... I like the guy, he's genius and all that, but he tried to be Bergman in one movie, and not even Bergman could do that. Anyway, Bergman's best movie is Smiles of a Summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Many Masks of DeWitt | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...Rhodesia Viscount turboprops for the 40-minute return flight to Salisbury. Six minutes after takeoff, the pilot of the first Viscount radioed a Mayday signal; then Flight RH-827, his plane, hit by at least one ground-to-air missile, plunged nose-first into a rocky ravine. The crash killed all 59 people on board. The second Viscount, with Defense Chief Lieut. General Peter Walls and his wife aboard, took off 15 minutes later. It immediately began to execute maneuvers designed to evade missiles and safely reached Salisbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Again, Death on Flight SAM-7 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Although the Viscount crash increased white Rhodesians' defiance, it also deepened their feeling of encirclement. Joking references to the Kariba-Salisbury air route as "Flight SAM-7" that were voiced in Salisbury after September's attack were not repeated last week. Indeed, whites' feelings of vulnerability were further heightened by the experience of the Viscount sent out to survey the RH-827 crash site. Flying low to reduce the risk of being hit by a missile, the pilot felt a slight jar and thought the plane had struck a bird. After it landed, five bullet holes were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Again, Death on Flight SAM-7 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...racquetwomen, who finished the season with an impressive 11-2 record, were riding back to Cambridge in a van when they heard the tragic news that teammate Cynthia Stanton, the number two player all year long, had died in a plane crash in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetwomen Drop Middlebury In Head-to-Head Season Finale | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Cynthia Stanton '82 and Joe Ray Stetson '74-4 died Friday night in an airplane crash in Dover, N.Y., a town outside of Poughkeepsie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Harvard Students Killed In Weekend N.Y. Plane Crash | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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