Word: overboard
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...duke-outs, shootups and gang wars. But in their campy zeal to duplicate the hard-boiled crime genre of the '30s and '40s, the film makers lapse frequently into a kind of hysterical, hell-for-leather hyperbole that gives the movie an air of burlesque gone overboard...
...first uses," says Guillet, "in wrappings and containers that get left behind outside, or are thrown overboard." The new plastics can also be used as a covering for some crops. Once ripped by weather, the film would be broken into even smaller particles by microorganisms-and so could be plowed back into the earth as fertilizer...
...with his image. These days, even Ollie Atkins, the official White House photographer, pleads vainly for some "humanizing" shots of Nixon boating off Key Biscayne. The President may be inhibited here, too, by the memory of a 1955 fishing expedition in the Florida Everglades when he fell overboard and was pictured for posterity hauling himself out of the drink. Last week when Nixon clambered ashore at Key Biscayne from a boating trip, he sported a small bandage over his left eyebrow, having apparently banged his head when the boat pitched. The forlorn photographers were left to dream about yet another...
WITH THE big engineering hurdles to manned space flight overcome, this year NASA headquarters was eager to mend its fences with space scientists. So when the moon rocks, the first tangible scientific payoff of the Apollo program, arrived, NASA went overboard. The agency received hundreds of research proposals and eventually narrowed them down to 142 projects. Some NASA consultants wanted to eliminate still more proposals, to avoid the hassle of two or three principle investigators claiming priority for the same discovery. Headquarters overruled them. "They wanted to spread the goodies around the country," said one researcher. "It's damn plain...
...pilot, Air Force Captain Wesley L. Rumble, 26, had gone down over Quang Binh province on April 28, 1966. The third man, Seaman Douglas B. Hegdahl, 23, had been rescued and captured by North Vietnamese fishermen in the Gulf of Tonkin on April 5, 1967, after he had fallen overboard from the cruiser U.S.S. Canberra while it was shelling the coast...