Word: plane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrible cycle of family tragedies shattered whatever strength Joan could muster: two brothers-in-law assassinated, her husband's near fatal plane crash, Chappaquiddick, which was followed a month later by a third miscarriage, then her son's leg amputation for cancer at twelve. She attempted a succession of cures: reviving a music career that had faltered, then psychiatrists, alcoholism sanitariums, even megavitamin therapy...
...supposed to protect him until he spills all his secrets to our side. The avalanche is but one of the many none too subtle attempts by Soviet intelligence to silence him before he gets too chatty. One keeps wondering why he was not simply bundled on a U.S.-bound plane in Italy in order to avoid all this huggermugger. There is talk about his being so important that rolling him all the way across the Continent will draw many So viet agents out of deep cover, thus crimping the enemy's espionage style. But all we ever...
Because Brown was hurt in a remote area where planes do not land, authorities have had difficulty transporting his body back to the United States. Government officials are planning to send an army plane for the body...
Thanks. I knew that there was something bothering me about this year's World Series. My gratitude goes out to you, Jeffrey R. Toobin, writer of the Box, for pointing out that it was that Pittsburgh and Baltimore are "aging industrial cities" that are only "an hour's plane ride apart." Pittsburgh aging? you must mean senile. As the headquarters of penny ante companies like U.S. Steel, Gulf Oil Corp., Alcoa and Westinghouse Electric Corp. it couldn't possibly be an industrially sophisticated city. Their baseball team naturally lacks sophistication because of this...
...staff and putting 85% of the senior officers on the retirement list. Through an American diplomat, they informed Romero that he had until 3 p.m. to get out of the country. With that, the President (whose brother Jose Javier was gunned down by leftists five weeks ago) boarded a plane and fled to Guatemala...