Word: mishap
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...sound odd, but misery needs to be entertaining. Appalling calamities befall some people; yet they manage to make them sound drab and boring. Others possess the gift of making a minor mishap vividly compelling...
...rookie at Indy last year. He qualified last in the field of thirty-three, but drove a heady race to finish fifth. This year he took over the McLaren car intended for Denis Hulme, who was forced to withdraw from the race when his hands were burned in a mishap during practice. The McLaren team has had personnel difficulties all month, and the cars haven't run as fast as they did in preliminary tests last fall. Still, the mechanical preparation of the McLarens is immaculate, and Revson has a good shot at another good finish...
...four weeks. The investigators-including Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon -will be extremely busy. During the six-day voyage, Apollo 13 radioed back more than 7,000,000 feet of taped data, all of which will have to be carefully combed for clues to the mishap. In addition, the board will have to examine the films and still photographs brought back by the astronauts...
When Richard Nixon puts that question to Spiro Agnew this week, the Vice President will be able to give a creditable reply. Returning from his 39,000-mile tour of eleven Asian and Pacific countries, Agnew can report that his first venture into geopolitics went without a major mishap. It was, as billed, a useful educational tour for the man who could some day become President...
...those who are accustomed to watching Bill Murphy dive at the LAB, last night's performances, particularly in the one-meter, were a letdown. Springfield's Fred Laing barely beat Dick Eisenberg in the one-meter, and there was almost a bad mishap when the Chiefs' Mark Donnelly failed to get out far enough and came down just to the right of the board...