Word: hawley
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Died. William Hawley Bowlus, 71, pioneer glider pilot and the man responsible for building Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, who started making sailplanes as a teen-ager in 1910, after World War I joined Plane Builder T. Claude Ryan as plant superintendent in charge of constructing the Spirit, later taught both Lindy and his wife Anne the art of soaring; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...
...concerned, we're roughing it now," said Daniel Hawley, lounging with his wife in front of their self-contained, $13,000 Cortez bus camper, while their three children splashed in the swimming pool at Florida's Fiesta Key Resort. Near by, Joseph Haigh and his wife took the sun beside their Dodge camper, a 27-ft.-long bus that, when fully equipped with stainless-steel galley, stall shower, toilet and bunks for six, can cost more than $16,000. "We're land cruisers now," says Haigh, who gave up a lifetime of boating after...
...piece. That is because Benchley's plots generally straddle the line of plausibility. Like most of his eight other novels, The Monument depends on readers who are willing to believe the unbelievable. Its story deals with a campaign to build a Korean War memorial in Hawley, a little inbred New England town on the Atlantic shore. Even before the selectmen vote on it, this modest proposal nourishes more intrigues than the Orient Express and incites more violence, including suicide and murder, than a Mafia convention. None of the characters ever fully escape their enormous and restrictive obligations...
Died. Major General Paul Ramsey Hawley, 74, sharpshooting medical administrator, an Indiana surgeon who proved his organizational skill during World War II as head of U.S. medical operations in Europe, went on to whip the chaotic Veterans Administration medical service into shape and then become head of the Blue Cross-Blue Shield health-insurance plans, all the while waging a running battle against unethical practice, including fee splitting, unnecessary surgery and exorbitant prices; of cancer; in Washington...
...Fort Belknap reservation. In 1963 the tribal court ordered Mrs. Colliflower to quit pasturing her cattle in someone else's field. Having apparently ignored the order, she was arrested by the reservation's Police Chief Joe Plumage and Officer Lyle Reddog, and haled before Indian Judge Cranston Hawley. She pleaded not guilty. But without ever giving her a trial, Judge Hawley offered her the choice of a $25 fine or five days in jail...