Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That murderous byproduct of the gasoline age-the drunken driver-is moving into the sky. In 1961 private planes were in 54 accidents in which alcohol was involved-38 of them fatal...
...more and more examples of the brave World War II hero who after about three beers goes out and borrows, or leases, or steals an airplane and flies it," said Federal Aviation Agency Chief Najeeb E. Halaby. FAA's Director of Flight Standards George C. Prill confirms that drunken flying is increasing, and that the agency is trying to figure out how to deal with...
...Drunken, talentless Pat Hobby-his eyes are "red-rimmed" in most of the 17 stories-is part a caricature of Hollywood, part Fitzgerald making faces at the mirror. Hobby, who once drew $2,500 a week, now connives to get past the studio gatekeeper; Fitzgerald, who once could finance a summer at Juan-les-Pins with a weekend of woodshedding, was reduced to begging Esquire Magazine Editor Arnold Gingrich: "The address is the Bank of America, Culver City, and I wish you'd wire the money if you like this story. Notice that this is pretty near twenty-eight...
...Cleveland is still a major league mark) and flirted with bankruptcy. A confessed "publicity hound" who for years stumped around on a wooden peg (he lost his right leg as the result of a World War II inju ry), he spent money like a drunken sailor on sparkling Burgundy (he calls it "bubble ink") for himself, fireworks, exploding scoreboards, blaring bands and tightrope walkers for his wide-eyed fans...
Late that year, however, it seemed as if Kohler's promising career was at an end. While driving home from an Arlington, Va. dinner party with him, his wife rammed a telephone pole. Kohler was convicted of public intoxication, his wife of drunken driving. Worse yet, it turned out that Kohler's briefcase, containing two secret documents that he had removed from State Department files without permission, was locked in the auto's trunk at the time of the accident. Kohler was reprimanded by the State Department, suspended without pay for 30 days, dropped from...