Word: errantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, two one-acters by Peter Shaffer, play Getting to Know You, first to the sketchy theme of boyish bunglings in a scrubby flat, second to the more artful airs of a detective shadowing a seemingly errant wife...
Died. Charles Floyd, 41, former FAA radar operator, who on May 20, 1958, watched his screen in helpless horror at the Washington control center as an errant Maryland National Guard T-33 crashed into a Capital Airlines Viscount, killing eleven aboard the airliner, an accident for which he was not responsible, but which plagued his thoughts thereafter; by his own hand (barbiturates); in Herndon...
...lining a 1,000-ft.-wide hole in the ground. Above it, three tall thin towers poke toward the sky. From the towers' tips, cables string out to suspend a tangle of girders over the center of the bowl. The complete contraption looks like the product of some errant giant playing with an outsize Erector set. But at its dedication in the hills south of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, last week, the great scope was tuned and ready-a sharp and farseeing eye focused on the farthest reaches of the universe...
...Scandalous John takes on a "hideously grinning" Buick with his bowie knife, and from then on things get worse. Author Gardner, 31, who lives on an island off Spain's Costa Brava, explains that his inspiration for this first novel was the question: "What would the American knight-errant be like and what would be his fate?" His answers seem to be Scandalous John's repeated cry, "I'm my own man," and his bloody end on a city sidewalk in a confrontation with an uncomprehending guardian of the sanitary code. It's probably just...
Suddenly, it was Jack's, not Arnie's, private tournament. Everybody tried to take it away, including one distraught Palmer fan who ran into a pine forest to retrieve his hero's errant ball and throw it back onto the fairway. But Palmer was unable to master his short game, on the third day added a second straight 73 to his opening round 74 and grumpily conceded that he was out of the running. "My putting stinks," he said. "I'll be glad when this is over." So would a lot of other golfers. The weather...