Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot, Captain Julius R. McCoy, 34, of the Maryland Air National Guard, and his passenger Donald Chalmers, 26, Baltimore law student and National Guard Pfc., up on his first flight. At 8,500 ft. over western Maryland the T-Bird headed into a thin cloud in a steep right turn, slipped out of the cloud and sheared into the side of a Capital Airlines turboprop Viscount en route from Pittsburgh to Baltimore. Both planes spun to the ground. All seven passengers and four crew members of the Viscount were killed. So was Law Student Chalmers. The sole survivor...
Under the Communists, science continued to be admired, but it was rigidly required to be loyal. Since, to the Marxist, the new society was the inevitable result of the inexorable evolution of natural law, Marxism appeared to be a triumph of science, and science in turn became a Marxist cult. In 1934 French Statesman Edouard Herriot observed that "Soviet rule has bestowed upon science all the authority of which it deprived religion...
...turn of the century, eight dailies were crammed together on the narrow, twisting section of Washington Street in downtown Boston called "Newspaper Row." Eight was too many. There, elbowing each other for space and circulation, the Boston papers developed their traditional pattern of frantic promotions, flashy makeup and lackadaisical reporting...
...stood out sharply above the others. The winners: India's Zubin Mehta, 22; Detroit-born Haig Yaghjian (pronounced Yog-jun), 33, founder of the semiprofessional Fresno (Calif.) orchestra; Norway's Sverre Bruland, 35. Conductor Steinberg, 58, was disappointed, but not particularly surprised that the contest did not turn up the "fair-haired wonder boy we were looking for." Said he: "Conducting is, in its best sense, conveying experience. How can young men convey experience...
...ending was rather tense however, for the teams had agreed to adjourn at 7:30 p.m. (it began at 2:45) and at 7, the Elis still had four wickets in hand, threatening to turn a clear win into a draw. However, splendid bowling by the Crimson's Barry Eastment and Charlie Mills enabled the eleven to put the Elis out with two minutes to spare...