Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bats in the night, a technician rubs a cork on the side of a bottle. The bats themselves are plastic and wired for flight. Coffins, cakes of dry ice (for eerie ground fog) and quarts of stage blood litter the studio. To spook up the manor with cobwebs, the crew flings chunks of latex into an electric fan, which scatters them authentically over the walls...
...Blue Crew. Scientology today has 22 headquarters in six countries and claims to have a membership in the thousands. In the U.S., where it operates ten "churches," it seems to have a strong appeal for hippies. Though Hubbard "retired" two years ago, when he sold the good will of his name to the movement for $240,000, he keeps in touch by Telex with international headquarters in Britain...
McGuire does not mind talking about his closest call while flying to Biafra and, one might even suspect that he takes a certain delight in it. Scheduled as a crew member on one flight, he transferred to an earlier one partly because of a quarrel with the other flight engineer, but mostly because of "a certain feeling; you get to be like a cat or some kind of an animal sometimes." The flight to which McGuire transferred was supposed to be a dangerous one. Its pilot, since given other duties, carried the sobriquet of "Mr. Magoo." It landed safely...
...group of Harvard crew members supporting the Olympic Project for Human Rights will begin next week to contact by mail all other members of the United States Olympic team...
Curt Canning, captain of the crew and one of the six members of the group formed earlier this summer, said yesterday that the group will send out personal letters to the basketball team and to the part of the equestrian team which has been chosen. Most of the trials for the more than 500 Olympic berths will be held during the next two weeks...