Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Light Blue scored immediately at the start of the second half, and took several close shots that almost tied the score, but the Crimson backs were finally able to control play. Halfback passing to the line set up Ohiri's second goal, which was followed by a scoring boot...
* If so-the final toll may not be known for weeks-the tragedy would surpass the worst previous dam disaster on record, the U.S.'s Johnstown, Pa., flood of 1889, which claimed 2,209 lives.
One day last week a T-28 fighter-bomber flown by a U.S. Air Force captain and his Vietnamese crewman crashed on a dive-bombing run southwest of Danang, near the Laotian border. When two UH-34 Marine helicopters, carrying a search-and-rescue party, fluttered into the guerrilla-infested...
Poking through the scant ruins, Public Works Minister Fiorentino Sullo mourned: "A truly Biblical disaster, like Pompeii." As the dead were stacked in a mass grave, angry Italians demanded an investigation. Before Vaiont Dam was built four years ago, local residents tried to get the hydroelectric project halted on grounds...
Creeping Warning. Last week, with Italy's Communists eagerly in the forefront, critics asked why the private electric company that constructed the dam before its nationalization a few months ago did not build a retaining wall to hold back Mount Toe. Moreover, loose earth had been creeping down the...