Word: topped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then over the Atlantic to a bizarre conclusion in Rome. All through its strange progress, the changing track of Flight 85 compelled the attention of the earthbound: the FBI, air-traffic controllers, and-quite understandably -President Forwood Wiser of TWA, who sat out the 17-hour ordeal with other top company executives at the airline's Manhattan headquarters. Said a Federal Aviation Agency official: "That flight was handled as if it were Air Force One." The general public of two continents hung on Flight 85's every move, fascinated by the airborne drama. Once again it was evident...
...follow an old Volkswagen bus north to Malibu, where it U-turns and pauses at the water's edge. Four surfboards on top, four kids with long hair inside. I ask the nearest surfer on the beach, "Why do you do it?" Terry Sinclair, a college boy with long dark hair, answers: "Because I wrecked my leg motorcycle racing...
...watch him saunter around, loose-limbed and relaxed, and I believe the sales talk. "You know, a lot of board chairmen are here not because of the job, but because they want to live in California. Some top executives live here but commute to New York for five days a week. In fact, the speed of travel and communications today has ended the inferiority complex the California businessman used to have. The California industrialist is liberated from that old provincial feeling. And he shows it. He is tanned, he swims a lot, he is healthy?people are interested...
BESIDES the perceptive narrators who are able to maturely integrate their lives, Mr. Taylor describes those top-drawer people who grow into unhappy insurance men and car dealers. They are often incapable of a generous and rich relationship with a partner, with children, with-simply-any other human being. Mr. Taylor suggests that the family can effectively balance the fear and uncertainty of life. Yet this kind of security is not automatic. The man in "At the Drugstore" can say that he and his father "had . . . made these adjustments and concessions that a happy and successful life requires. . . . They...
When asked about the possibility of Matte rushing 1000 yards this year, ex-Colt Alex Hawkins said. "If Tom Matte gains 1000 yards rushing. I'll jump off the top of the Regency Hotel without a parachute...