Word: mishap
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From the outset, Smith's own trek was marked by mishap. At Minneapolis, his plane made a forced landing. At Mandan, N. Dak., the wind at the top of a cliff caught the bellows of his camera and tumbled him 4 ft. over the edge to a shelf with a view 700 ft. straight down. His great 8 by 10 studio camera-basically unchanged in construction from the days of Daguerre, Morse and Mathew Brady, but still, in Smith's opinion, the best for scenic photography-was smashed beyond repair. A second of these cameras, tripod...
...dented the wing and ripped a deicer, he nonchalantly took off for Nova Scotia. The tower called Godfrey, broke the news that he had just had a slight accident. Surprised as he could be, Pilot Godfrey returned to the field, where all was forgiven as an inadvertent mishap...
Though the X-1A was the only one left of its kind, the Air Force still has two modified versions of the record-shattering plane in the X-1B and X-1E, and only three days after the mishap, it announced that its far more advanced experimental Bell X2, already tested in glides from 30,000 ft., is now ready for even faster powered flight through the "thermal thicket." Launched, like the X-1A, from a mother plane, and pushed by a rocket engine designed to give a 16,000-lb. thrust, the slim-nosed, stainless steel X-2 will...
...vaccine unsafe. And they had little patience with the Mahoney strain (which has caused most of the polio in the Cutter-vaccinated cases).* Denmark, they noted, has inoculated its 400,000 schoolchildren with a Salk-type vaccine, but with the Brunhilde strain substituted for Mahoney, and with no mishap. And since the U.S. authorities were not satisfied with present testing methods, it was clear that major changes in the Salk vaccine were imminent...
Lesser Evil. In Portsmouth, Ohio, Judge Lowell Thompson dismissed a drunken-driving charge against Robert Fortenberry, 32, after hearing Fortenberry's explanation: in his home state of Georgia, police confiscate an auto if liquor is found in it, so rather than lose his new car after a traffic mishap, he drank the half-pint of whisky he had under the seat...