Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragedy to befall the children of Howard Gossage, a brilliant, maverick advertising executive who created, among other shrewdly promoted schemes, the Beethoven sweatshirt and the International Paper Airplane Competition. He died of leukemia in 1969. Eben and Amy had a half sister, June, who was killed in an automobile crash, and their mother died last May of cirrhosis of the liver...
...able to keep on this path as long as students don't remind it of the promises of the 60's; and as long as community groups stay so tied up in battling projects like the Kennedy Library that they ignore the behavior of Harvard itself. And when the crash finally comes, the University will authorize a committee to write a report on the problems of the University and the city. And it will probably arrive at the same solutions that the Wilson report came up with seven long years...
JACKSON'S MOBILIZED The National Energy Production Board would be empowered to develop oil and natural gas on public lands, but its main purpose would be to organize and speed up exploration and production efforts by all U.S. oil enterprises. Jackson believes that a crash effort is needed to develop domestic oil resources, between now and 1985, when investments in nuclear plants and other alternate sources begin to yield energy dividends. He envisions an energy superagency that would establish priorities, let huge contracts and even set up new companies for specific jobs. The aim of the board, says Jackson...
...week's end Onassis' condition still remained serious. All his life he has had a reputation for being a stubborn, determined fighter who would presumably struggle to stay alive. However, intimates have noted that since a plane crash two years ago killed Alexander, his only son and heir, at the age of 24, Onassis has been despondent, wondering what he had left to work or live...
...Chien-ying, 76, was appointed Defense Minister, a post that had been vacant since 1971, when Lin Piao died in a plane crash after allegedly trying to assassinate Party Chairman...