Word: crashing
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...bags are designed to inflate on impact in any crash at a speed of 12 m.p.h. or more, filling a car's front passenger compartment to hold the driver and passengers in their seats, then deflate in seconds after the impact is over. The Department of Transportation wants to make them mandatory on cars beginning with the 1977 model year; the amendment would permit the department only to require that they be offered as an option...
Test Miles. Automakers contend that test data are still insufficient to prove the safety and reliability of air bags. Transportation Department experts disagree. They contend that hundreds of accidents involving air-bag-equipped autos have conclusively shown that bags protect drivers from serious injury even in high-speed crashes. They also claim that tests have banished two early fears about the bags: that they would inflate accidentally when there was no collision, and that they might pop open with such force as to injure children. In millions of test miles driven, that just has not happened. The bags do have...
Businesses fail every day, but seldom with so reverberating a crash as the one that has just accompanied the collapse of Court Line, Britain's second largest travel firm. Some 49,000 British tourists, mostly members of the working class, were stranded throughout Europe, the Soviet Union and North Africa. Another 100,000 had to stay home; they lost not only their holidays but perhaps $15 million which had been prepaid, often with life savings. "We've slaved, actually slaved, for a whole year, cutting down on everything from milk to the pictures," sobbed one London schoolteacher...
...relatives arriving from New York. There is a car accident, but the chauffeur refuses to help, since it is after sun down Friday-the start of the Sabbath, when Orthodox Jews do not work-so De Funès must extricate himself all on his own. Meanwhile, near the crash scene a gang of Middle Eastern terrorists chases after one of their political leaders, trying to torture information about the underground out of him. De Funès stumbles on their hideout, hooks up with the leader, is chased by the terrorists, shows up at the airport, switches identities with...
Died. Ildebrando Cardinal Antoniutti, 75, longtime Vatican diplomat, official of the Roman Curia and, most recently, camerlengo, or chamberlain, of the church, the prelate who administers the Holy See and supervises the election of a new Pope after the incumbent's death; in an automobile crash; near Bologna, Italy...