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Word: logbooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judge in the race. Examining Crowhurst's logs, he found that the yachtsman had sailed 14,500 miles but never left the Atlantic. He had invented his positions in countless short-wave radio broadcasts to indicate that he was traveling around the world. Moreover, Crowhurst began a new logbook on Dec. 12, and about that time he began sending false radio messages. It appears that he intended to fill the old log with fake entries and throw the new one away when he landed. And while his jottings became more distressed, the tape recordings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress: Mutiny of the Mind | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

Self-Wounded. In addition to this recital, the Air Force logbook at West Palm Beach suggested that Shea was on duty 65 miles away until at least one hour before Mary Meslener left the airport-hardly time enough, as claimed in his confession, for Shea to hitchhike to Miami, visit several downtown bars, ride a bus to the airport, try to steal a car, get caught in the act by Mary Meslener and then murder her. Not only was Shea later unable to point out the parking lot where the original assault took place, but a palm print found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Boy Who Wanted to Die | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

Chopped Hogs. Founded in 1950 at Fontana, a steel town 50 miles east of Los Angeles, the club now numbers about 450 in California. Their logbook of kicks runs from sexual perversion and drug addiction to simple assault and thievery. Among them, they boast 874 felony arrests, 300 felony convictions, 1,682 misdemeanor arrests, and 1,023 misdemeanor convictions. Of 151 An gels involved in the 300 felony convictions, only 85 have ever served time in prisons or reform schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: The Wilder Ones | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

When the fire was finally quenched-40 hours after it began-the flames had burned more than 11,500 acres, destroyed and damaged 30 homes and caused total losses estimated at more than $5,000,000. That fire would be recorded in the disaster logbook alongside the 1961 Bel Air fire that wiped out 484 homes, the 1958 Malibu fire that destroyed 72 houses, and the 1938 Topanga Canyon blaze that leveled 350 homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: No End to Disaster | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...speed of 18,000 m.p.h. and in an oval that ranged from 109 miles to 139 miles above the earth, he dined on roast beef and chicken, manually operated the controls of his spacecraft. From the capsule, live television images were periodically flashed to Soviet viewers. Bykovsky waved his logbook, let his pencil and other objects float in the cabin to demonstrate weightlessness. On his fourth orbit, the cosmonaut talked directly to Khrushchev in the Kremlin. Not yet a full-fledged party member, Bykovsky said: "I want to be a Communist, a member of our great Leninist party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Romanoff & Juliet | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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