Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cars and then be hurtled through a maze of environments that begins with a terrifyingly realistic "orbit" among the stars, careens on through the hellish jaws of a live volcano crater. On opening day, the mechanism broke down, stranding passengers in the volcano and providing Expo with its first mishap...
...already contaminated both Venus and Mars. In 1965, there was a failure aboard Russia's Venus 3, which was to parachute a sterilized instrument capsule to the surface of Venus. As a result, they believe, both the capsule and the unsterilized spacecraft hit the Venusian surface. A similar mishap that same year may have caused the unsterilized Russian probe called Zond 2 to impact on the surface of Mars...
...mile-high suborbital flight was a success, but the splashdown in the Atlantic ended in near-disaster when the capsule hatch inexplicably blew off, swamping Grissom inside. Gus swam from the sinking craft and was rescued by helicopter. Though he was in no way to blame for the mishap, he inevitably became known to the public as the astronaut who lost his capsule. He became more reticent, withdrew even more than usual to the company of his wife Betty and two sons, convinced that he had to prove himself anew...
McKelvey was also involved in a mishap that ruined what could have been the best mile relay race of the year. He dropped the baton on a pass from Bob Cook, who had just taken a three-yard lead on the third leg. The duel between McKelvey and B.U. anchorman Hemery never came...
...pinned without complications and the patient was reported "alert and joking with his doctors." Dirksen is expected to stay in the hospital for two weeks, after which he will be on crutches for two months or so. Meanwhile, with no major legislation scheduled for immediate Senate action, the mishap had one welcome effect. His hospital stay, as Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield noted, will give the hard-driving Republican a "well-earned rest...