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...cause of the accident is undetermined. An MBTA official said it was the first such mishap in his 25 years of service, although a conductor mentioned it happened two years ago "back on the siding, where no one knew about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MBTA Car Derailed Near Harvard Station | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

...picked McDivitt and White as the spacemen for last week's flight nearly a year ago. After that, each man spent scores of hours in a simulated capsule at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center They practiced the chilling procedures for aborting a flight in case of a mishap in a centrifuge at Johnsville, Pa. Together, they bobbed inside a Gemini capsule shell on the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston, rehearsing the act of opening the hatch, jumping out and inflating a life raft to await rescuers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Closing the Gap | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...course of his career, Funk suffered one major mishap with words. In 1936 he was made editor in chief of Literary Digest, Funk & Wagnalls' weekly compendium of comment on current affairs, and he promptly ran a poll that showed Alf Landon trouncing Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lexicography: Words That Sizzled | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...steep trajectory that aimed her short of the target. By the time Grissom had calculated the trajectory on his computer, and realized that Molly was getting less lift than expected, it was too late to correct the error. Fortunately, the lift data obtained from Molly's minor mishap will make it possible to land future Gemini capsules with much greater precision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Molly's Laggard Lift | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...M.I.T., Crimson ace Time Prince won eight out of ten races. In one race he lost his main sheet and dropped to second place as he sailed the windward leg re-threading the sheet. He regained his lead on the leeward leg, however, and finished first despite the mishap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yachtsmen Make Northeast Finals | 4/27/1965 | See Source »

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