Word: fatalism
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...hose him away. And at an airfield in New Jersey, Pilot Grace McGuire, who bears an eerie resemblance to the late Amelia Earhart, will assemble a 1936 Lockheed Electra 10E, the kind of plane Earhart used, with the intention of next year completing the famed barnstormer's fatal last flight in the Pacific. She plans to take only equipment identical to that on Earhart's plane. Her fuel will give her 21 hours of flying for the 2,556-mile first leg from Lae, New Guinea, to Rowland Island in mid-Pacific, which allows "not much reserve...
...Rosenbergs, repeatedly played into his opponents' hands, spoke when he should have remained silent, and said nothing when he should have argued. Said an outmaneuvered Bloch at one point: "For the purposes of going over the Government's witnesses' testimony which we think is fatal..." He meant "vital." Fair weight is given to various reasons for these lapses, but in the final analysis, the authors are led to dark speculation. Could it be, they ask, that the deeply troubled lawyer felt it was better to sacrifice his clients as martyrs to Communism than risk their eventual confessions...
...Fossey. Food, safety and building a nest for the night seem uppermost in those broad, sloping heads. Females in estrus have one thing on their minds: mating with their leaders who, in turn, worry about rivals. Kinship bonds are strong; encounters between unrelated groups can be bloody, and sometimes fatal to the young. Indeed infanticide occurs often enough to constitute a serious problem for the ape image. For in the end, gorillas are usually judged not as other animals but as near humans. From Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue to King Kong, we have projected...
...foreign troops in Lebanon. The Americans made the fatal mistake of thinking they could get all the forces to withdraw and still bypass the crucial issue of the Middle East: the Palestinian problem. Nothing has been solved by the Israeli invasion, and the situation is only more complicated now. Israel will not leave. As for Syria, it is better that you ask them...
DIED. Anne Hewlett Fuller, 87, widow of Futurist Inventor R. Buckminster Fuller, who suffered a fatal heart attack while visiting his comatose wife's bedside; after an intestinal operation; in Los Angeles. Although she did not learn of his death, Mrs. Fuller died 36 hours after her husband. They were buried together last week in Cambridge, Mass...