Word: max
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...DIED. Max Conrad, 76, the "flying grandfather" who set six distance and endurance records in the air; in his sleep; in Summit, NJ. In 1950, to visit his wife and their nine children in Europe, Conrad soloed in a tiny Piper Pacer from New York to Geneva. Hooked by the fame that followed, he made nearly 200 transoceanic flights in small planes...
...editorial columns became what many students of the genre consider to be the country's best, or very close to it: lively, tightly reasoned, well informed and elegantly crafted. Indeed, the Post has for years generally outthought and outinfluenced the archrival New York Times, though veteran Timesman Max Frankel has livened that paper's orotund and occasionally murky editorial page since he became its editor...
Wellston, Ohio, a town of 6,000, 75 miles southeast of Columbus, is short on cash and long on potholes; about 10,000 of them pit Wellston's 44 miles of streets. When former Police Chief Max Downard burst a tire in a particularly jagged chasm, he jokingly proposed to Mayor Harold Souders that the town sell its potholes to help raise the $70,000 needed to repair last winter's wear and tear. After the suggestion was reported in the paper, says Souders, "a woman walked in with a check for two potholes." Then another woman came...
...DIED. Max Hayward, 54, English scholar who translated Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and works by Solzhenitsyn and other Russian authors banned or banished in their own country; of cancer; in Oxford, England. A natural linguist, Hayward taught himself Russian as a teen-ager by plowing through an untranslated tome on gypsies. Between studying at Oxford in the '40s and returning there to teach in 1956, he spent two years in the British embassy in Moscow, where he developed a passionate concern for the literary culture stricken by Stalin's purges. He eventually became, said a colleague...
Straight said he feared other city discos may adopt free admission policies for Harvard students. "Now Club Max has followed suit, and since they all have to compete with each other, I'm afraid other discos might join in, "Straight said...