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Evidence presented by a University ornithologist has somewhat substantiated the Federal Aviation Agency's theory that a flock of starlings, sucked into the engine on take-off, caused the Eastern Airlines Electra to crash Tuesday night at Logan International Airport, killing 61 persons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ornithologist Presents Evidence On Causes of Airlines Disaster | 10/7/1960 | See Source »

...asked for a laboratory check of dead starlings on the runway, after Gen. Elwood Quesada, Federal Aviation Administrator, theorized that the plane hit a flock of birds on the runway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ornithologist Presents Evidence On Causes of Airlines Disaster | 10/7/1960 | See Source »

...basis of Paynter's findings, the FAA now assumes that the plane flew through a flock of starlings, some of which jammed the engine. The agency expects to find bits of birds in the engine when it is salvaged from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ornithologist Presents Evidence On Causes of Airlines Disaster | 10/7/1960 | See Source »

...other sub-plot, which is partially justified by some noble writing for the bass-baritone, tells of Father Dossifey and his attempt to win peace and prosperity for his flock. In the end, the Czarina--at least, I think it's the Czarina--has him killed for reasons best known to herself...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Khovantschina | 9/28/1960 | See Source »

...Russians in televised United Nations debates, Lodge had a great day. At Long Island's Jones Beach, he kissed his first baby of the 1960 campaign and got the father's promise of a vote. At Coney Island, a coatless, tieless, wide-grinning Lodge, ringed by a flock of oohing-aahing teenagers, made his way to Nathan's celebrated hot-dog emporium, cheerfully gulped down a well-mustarded Nathan's Famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Voices of Veeps | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

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