Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until even VOR was ineffectual. With its field socked in, Nantucket tried to warn the Convair by voice radio-and could not reach it. Flight 258 came in for its landing, flying low over scrub pines. It plowed into the ground 600 feet to the left of the runway. Dead when the wreckage was cleared were 23 of the 34 people aboard, including onetime (1950-53) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean, 52, a senior vice president of General Dynamics Corp., a work-week summer bachelor, commuting weekends by air to Nantucket and his waiting wife...
...sound of water against pilings, the bitter wind singing in the telegraph wires broke the silence as the first bodies were brought ashore. They were wrapped, not in half a red sail, but in blue blankets and blue plastic shrouds, and Monsignor George Quinn whispered the prayers for the dead over each of them. Mourned a woman in the crowd: "Three of my own were brought back the same way. May God and his Holy Mother have mercy on their souls...
...entire soccer team made up of star Algerian players (TIME, April 28). In combatting the F.L.N., French secret police have made thousands of arrests, but they mostly pick up small fry. In the first six months of this year, Algerian war violence in Metropolitan France accounted for 374 dead and 617 wounded. Grumbled a D.S.T. agent: "It's like chopping at the tips of the tentacles of an octopus. We haven't been able to get at the beast himself...
...Paar to live at the top of his emotions, because to such a large extent in his work, feeling takes the place of a specific talent. He is no actor, singer or dancer. He is a gifted comedian, but not in the Lindy stand-up-and-knock-'em-dead sense. His comedy is low pressure and has to be, if it is to be tolerated on a nightly 1¾-hr. show. "Nine hours a week," says one awed performer of Paar's stint. "My God, that isn't overexposure, it's practically nudism." But Paar...
Excipe John Periwig, tied up to the tail of a dead...