Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minnesota. Folksy Republican Elmer Andersen, 51, wealthy adhesives-company president and former state senator, is giving three-term Incumbent Orville Freeman, 42, a key shepherd of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor flock, the race of his life...
When a Lockheed Electra plunged 62 persons to their death in Boston Harbor fortnight ago, Administrator Elwood R. Quesada of the Federal Aviation Agency pointed the finger of blame at the flocks of starlings that populate the runway areas of Boston's Logan International Airport. Last week investigators found preliminary proof to indict the starlings, indicated that a flock of 10,000 to 20,000 starlings slammed into the Electra 25 seconds after it left the ground...
...Electra in service has yet been modified, and last week's crash laid Quesada's reputation as well as the Electra's on the line. But a flock of dead starlings on the runway at Logan-plus divers' reports that Flight 375's submerged fuselage was still spattered with birds-offered Quesada one plausible explanation: the plane may have hit a flock of birds on takeoff. The birds could have plugged engine air intakes of one or more engines on the left side and caused flameouts; they could even have fouled the mechanism controlling...
...Brazil (1,470 Baptist churches). In Nigeria, five Cabinet ministers in the Western Region are mission-trained Baptists. In Ghana, a Baptist mission hospital treats some 2,400 patients a month. In Kenya, Moslems and Christians, Arabs and Negro tribesmen attend Sunday school by the hundreds, and women flock to weekday sewing classes. In Beirut, Lebanon, last week, the Southern Baptists' 36th foreign seminary opened with 22 students from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon...
Even the top-priority luncheon thrown for him by his great and good friend (and fellow Lenin prizewinner) Cyrus Eaton, the Cleveland industrialist, was not all K. had hoped for. Present were about 125 U.S. and Canadian businessmen (mostly associates of Eaton's) and a flock of Tass reporters. Though Khrush got a chance to sing his Communist theme, most of the guests deliberately passed up his offer to answer questions from the floor; one disgruntled guest was heard to mutter during K.'s speech: "Oh, sit down, you s.o.b...