Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pilot Francis Gary Powers began to describe his part in one of history's most celebrated-and. until his mishap, most successful-espionage operations...
...flavor; it devotes nearly as much space to domestic news as it does to national news. One of its most popular features is a three-to four-column chronicle of Buffalo items, headed "Daily News Summary" and set in eye-straining agate type. Here the News reports birth, traffic mishap, burglary, blaze, marriage license, missing person, court judgment, bankruptcy and stolen car. Deaths, society notices, club meetings and high school athletic contests get more generous shares of space...
...amount of solvent exploded and blew open the door of a processing cell at the AEC's Oak Ridge laboratory. About one-fiftieth of an ounce of plutonium was scattered into the air. Last week the AEC reported on what it took to tidy up this minor atomic mishap...
...eats its way outward. An air bubble allows part of the flame to get ahead of the rest. The result is a "hot spot" that burns a hole in the rocket's metal casing before all its fuel is consumed, causing a disastrous blowout. To eliminate such a mishap, each booster is taken to a fenced-off area blazoned with signs warning against radiation. There it is wrapped in X-ray film, and a speck of fiercely radioactive cobalt 60 is thrust into its cavity. When the films are developed, they show up any air bubbles...
Monocled British Actor Martyn Green, 60, who lost half his left leg in a Manhattan garage-elevator mishap (TIME, Nov. 16), hobbled on uncertain crutches from his hospital room, bumped smack into the embraces of Broadway friends on hand for his coming-out party. Especially famed as a Gilbert and Sullivan singer and dancer, Green was soon informed that the Actors' Fund will provide him with an artificial leg so that he may again "bring joy and laughter to the stage." Having recalled recently that Actress Sarah Bernhardt carried on her career for some years with an artificial...