Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trans World Airlines Flight 128 close to their ranch house in Hebron, Ky. The four-jet Convair 880 bound from Los Angeles with 82 persons aboard was approaching the Greater Cincinnati Airport when it clipped saplings on the bluffs above the Ohio River, caromed over a ridge, sliced through tall timber, and then ploughed into an apple orchard half a mile away...
...down an estimated 17 before slumping dead over his smoking barrel. The beleaguered battalion regrouped and called in air strikes. As the jets roared in at 500 feet to blast the top of the hill, one released a 500-or 750-lb. bomb too soon. It burst in the tall trees just above the battalion's command post, killing 30 U.S. paratroopers, many of them wounded who had been pulled up to the headquarters area for safety...
Died. Ferdinand Louvat, 53, French pastry chef at the White House, hired by the Kennedys in 1962, who whipped up countless delectables for dignitaries and topped off his career with the Texas-sized (13 tiers, 8 ft. tall, 300 Ibs.) wedding cake he baked for Luci Johnson last year; of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
Andrews' approach to architecture is the cause of the excitement. "Movement and communication between people are the critical factors in our office," said the tall, stocky, blond-haired Australian in his Toronto office early this week. With Scarborough and Gund Hall in mind, Andrews, who is also the new chairman of the University of Toronto Architecture Department, reflected, "Education has to be about communication...
...people in this glass house throw pebbles, not stones, and such damage as they do is not to flesh but to sensibilities. Since the house is tall, stands on the bank of Manhattan's East River and is a monument to international good works, it may be as well to see it as U.N. headquarters. Shirley Hazzard calls it simply the Organization-though she worked at the U.N. for ten years. The characters represent many nations, but, above all, they represent one way of life. What they do and say provides a fictional counterpart to William Whyte...