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Because Chicago's Midway Airport sits smack in the middle of the city's southwest side, the residents of the neat one-story bungalows that crowd the area long ago learned how to read modulations in the engine noises of approaching aircraft. One afternoon last week, as they waited for their children to return home from school, the largely Polish, Lithuanian and Italian inhabitants of the Chicago Lawn area heard a sound they instantly mistrusted. Recalled Mrs. Pat Kjos: "I was in the basement, and I heard a plane go over. I just knew it was in trouble...
Coming in to its first approach through fog, a United Air Lines two-engine Boeing 737, en route from Washington, D.C., to Omaha, suddenly revved its engines, tilted its nose high, then struck seven houses and crashed a mile and a half short of Midway. Miraculously, the plane apparently killed only two of the residents, and missed a grammar school by one block. But 43 of the 61 people aboard the plane died, including all three members of the cockpit crew. It was the worst domestic airline crash in 1972. Among the victims were Congressman George Washington Collins...
...ragtime tradition-bouncing, thump-pah bass and ornate, syncopated melody-but it is nonetheless astounding in its flawlessly striding left hand and daringly acrobatic right. Blake still practices two hours a day; he works so much on the eve of a concert that "I get sick of hearing myself." Midway through a delirious rendition of his brand-new Classical Rag, Blake cried out, "Aha, it sounds good...
Johnson and Wales, which was four and five going into the game, capitalized on poor defense and jumped to an early four-point lead. Crimson coach Bob Hart quickly switched from a some to man-to-man defense and Harvard gained a lead midway through the first half which they never relinquished...
...Midway through the period, Bertagna made an important save on B.U. forward Ken Kuzyk, and a few seconds later Thorndike scored the winning goal...