Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breath for a second and the airplane kept flying," he recounts, "but I knew that I was hurt bad, so I leaned on the stick and turned and headed out to sea." Squadron Commander Richard ("Belly") Bellinger, 42, yelled for him to eject, but Adams' radio had quit-though he probably would not have listened anyway. Within seconds, says Adams, "I could see the flames in my mirror, crawling up the side of the airplane. I flew for a couple of more minutes, and the gauges on the panel went crazy...
...teacher who taught Speck in the eighth grade: "He seemed sort of lost. I don't think I ever saw him smile. Kids who sat near him often asked to be moved." The next year Speck dropped out of the ninth grade (the same level at "which Oswald quit school...
Larry Rink, of Centreville, Mich., who quit high school to work in a paper mill, was only 20 when his right leg had to be amputated because of bone cancer. In less than a year, the disease recurred with its usual malignancy. To Dr. Ray Houghton, an osteopathic physician of White Pigeon, it seemed that Rink's only chance lay in cross-transplants of cancer tissues with other patients-a bold technique under investigation at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo (TIME, March...
Costly Rescue. Frye quarreled with Hughes and quit in 1947 while the company was in the throes of serious losses. In return for more common stock, Hughes came forward with a major loan ($10 million) to keep TWA flying. In time, he hired a gifted administrator, Ralph Damon, who got the airline back into the black by pushing low-cost tourist fares. In 1956, Damon died of pneumonia, and TWA's fortunes plunged into five more years of turbulence. By now, Hughes had virtually vanished from sight, dealing with TWA's officers by phone, often in the dead...
...years ago. The first chairman, Mahmoud Younes, was given 60 hours' notice by Nasser in July 1956 to start running the canal. Although he had only general civil-engineering experience, the hard-driving Younes overcame the desperate shortage of managers and technicians. But in September, 156 foreign pilots quit, leaving him with 26 Egyptian and seven Greek pilots. By working his pilots 17 hours a day seven days a week, Younes kept ships moving through the canal...