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Word: hlavacek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Live ones, after a 135-m.p.h. plunge into freezing water and the swift current, were few. First Officer Frank S. Hlavacek, 33, clung weakly to a crumpled wing. Passenger Robert Sullivan, 8, bobbed to the surface with his dying mother, looked vainly for his father and two sisters. Stewardess Joan Zeller, 21, floated limp and badly injured. Despite the rescuers' heroic toil, there were only eight survivors -five passengers and three crew. The others-65 in all-died in the crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death at the Back Door | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...this point CBS Cameraman Arthur Bonner signalled the Portuguese to cease firing and walked slowly towards the customs house, his arms over his head. Bonner, in tears, brought the wounded woman back to the Indian side of the border and then, with U.P. Correspondent John Hlavacek, went out for the two men who had rushed after the woman. Indian onlookers began shouting "Please withdraw, satyagrahis, please withdraw." The satyagrahis crawled backward inch by inch until they reached Indian soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Force & Soul Force | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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