Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force plane flew over his boat and dropped into the water a plastic bottle attached to a red flag. The message in the bottle told Boggs to phone the White House. His boat pulled over to a nearby offshore oil rig. The Congressman donned a life jacket, swung by rope to a spindly ladder, and climbed 150 feet to the rig's platform, where a helicopter was awaiting him. At an airbase on the mainland, they crammed Boggs into a flight suit, strapped him into a two-seat jet trainer, clapped an oxygen mask on his face, took away...
...company showed a precarious profit in the first half of this year, its largest division, Fairbanks Morse, has stuck stubbornly in the red. And small wonder. Even in its most up-to-date plant, Fairbanks Morse works with machine tools 22 years old, and its warehouses still use rope-rigged elevators pulled by hand. Karr, who will step up to chairman of the company, says: "We were well aware of the need to bring in a capable manufacturing...
...Vietnamese Ranger company landed in the nearest clearing, but three hours later they were only halfway to the crash. First man on the scene was another Navy medic, who shinnied down a rope from a helicopter hovering over the wreckage. Three men were beyond help; four of the five survivors died in their litters as they were slowly and stealthily carried through the Red-infested territory to the hospital in Nhatrang. Only the pilot lived to tell the story, and he could not tell much. Apparently there had been no enemy gunfire; the chopper had entered a cloud bank...
...years, tourists poured into the little Swiss Alpine town of Kleine Scheidegg to gawk at a grisly spectacle. Hanging by a rope high up on the north wall of the Eiger (Ogre) was the body of a man, swinging free in summer, frozen to the wall in winter. It was the grim finale to a disastrous assault on the Eiger made by two Germans and two Italians in 1957. The retelling of their ordeal by Jack Olsen, a senior editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is an engrossing study of the dark drives that make men climb...
...alive through the clouds, he was "clearly visible in his fire-engine red tricot, his face turned upward to the skies, his arms outstretched as though asking the heavens for a miracle." In the dark of the night he was swept from his perch and died entangled in his rope against the face of the cliff...