Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...great house in the famous duet with Tenor Richard Tucker as Don Alvaro. Later, dressed in the gold and black uniform of a Spanish grenadier, Warren soliloquized about his gravely wounded comrade-in-arms: "Morir! . . . Tremenda cosa!" ("To die! Tremendous thing!"). Finally he sang the great aria, "Urna fatale del mio destino" ("Fatal urn of my destiny"), giving it the flooding warmth of color and the vibrant depth of feeling that only he could command...
...transport tragedies, 5,300 miles and 34 hours apart, last week brought 1960's grim record to eight major fatal crashes, 326 dead...
...Civil Aeronautics Board last week confirmed that the fatal crash of a National Airlines DC-6B in North Carolina (TIME, Jan. 18) was caused by sabotage. Reported CAB Chairman James Durfee: "We have found evidence that a dynamite explosion, initiated by a dry-cell battery, occurred within the aircraft cabin in the vicinity of the seat occupied by Julian Frank." Manhattan Lawyer Frank, deeply in debt, had insured his life for more than...
Died. Dr. Tom Douglas Spies, 57, nutrition expert whose boyhood horror of pellagra (once widespread, often fatal vitamin-deficiency disease in the South) led him to use nicotinic acid to cure the disease in the South and the North (where alcoholism was a principal contributing factor) ; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...boiler, which eventually blows its top through third, second and first-class cabins and rips a sizable hole in the side of the ship. The captain orders the lifeboats lowered, and as bulkhead after bulkhead bursts, he makes his desperate calculations: in 50 minutes the Claridon will take the fatal plunge...