Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five years ago at Morioka, Japan, when a Japanese fighter with a student pilot at the controls plowed into an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727. Even so, in an era of constantly expanding aircraft capacity, the Yugoslav accident was not the worst crash on record. That doubtful honor still belongs to a Turkish Airlines DC-10 jumbo that crashed near Paris two years ago, killing all 345 people aboard...
...other gifts were presented to Kelley by the FBI'S "Executive Conference" on his birthday and on the anniversary of his appointment as director. The Executive Conference consists of 16 ranking FBI officials who chipped in some $15 each to honor Kelley. Members of the conference last week visited Levi to express "absolute support and confidence" in Kelley. None of them reminded Levi that they had sent the Attorney General about $30 worth of flowers recently on his wedding anniversary...
...very readable biography, Crosby, who was 31, had been promising for years to commit suicide. He spoke and wrote about death in the dreamy, love-struck manner of a man talking about the sloop he is going to buy when he finishes putting his kids through college. To honor death, he wore a black carnation in his buttonhole. He saw suicide as a triumphant adventure, as a poet's most splendid poem, as a giggle, as a glorious stunt and especially as an explosive union with the godhead...
...American troops on duty at the negotiation sessions are ordered to wear athletic supporters with plastic cups in case of scuffling. "The North Koreans are absolutely unbending," said an Eighth Army officer on duty at Panmunjom. Spitting, name-calling and obscene gesturing, he added, are "almost a point of honor for them." When off duty, the 43 U.S. officers at Panmunjom mingle at an officers' club called The Monastery, where each man has a brown, velveteen monk's robe and hood that he dons for elaborate induction ceremonies. Each officer also owns a black baseball cap, which...
...knowledge that Wayne had his own bout with cancer - his testament that "I licked the Big C with the love of God and a lot of guts" is as well known as any line from his movies - and The Shootist trades on this fact. Besides, all the sober, rueful honor laid on here is premature. Let us hope it stays that way for a long time...