Word: mayday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue of Mayday reports that Dr. Farnsworth recently requested that other doctors send him information "to aid in answering our critics who say we have no data that marijuana is harmful...
...Mayday attributed the following statement to Farnsworth...
...power boats. Many of them, of course, have become experts at the game, and even the neophytes usually get home in one piece. The water, contrary to legend, is more forgiving than, say, the thin air or a concrete abutment. Even so, the Coast Guard responded to 43,000 "Mayday"* distress calls last year, the vast majority of them from power-boatmen, who also accounted for 875 of the 1,312 deaths on the water...
...cable tipped by a "forest penetrator": a 25-lb. sinker that can plunge through heavy foliage, then, petal-like, open up to form three seats. Rescue squadrons stand on alert for every sortie northward, and some even nest for a period within North Viet Nam, waiting for a mayday call...
...precisely time for a rescue, and onto the scene fluttered a re vamped "Silver Angel"-the stubby-winged HU-16 sea-rescue amphibian of Air Force Captain David P. Westen-barger, who had been on patrol 150 miles away when he first heard the radioed cry of "Mayday." Dropping through the cloud layer to 100 ft., West-enbarger saw an oncoming 30-ft. junk spitting machine-gun bullets just short of Huggins. "Dunk that junk," he ordered four fighters circling overhead. As they complied, Westenbarger splashed down near Huggins, taxied between him and the pistol-packing swimmers, pulled the downed...