Word: winging
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...converging on Staten Island's tiny Miller Field, an Army helicopter and small-plane airport. The TWA Constellation had fallen on the edge of the field, a slim 150 ft. beyond a residential section and two schools. "It went down in a terrible way," said one woman, "one wing gone-and it turned over and over very slowly." Seat-belted bodies were flung everywhere. An Army squad arrived in trucks, played extinguishers on burning bodies, crawled into the wreckage, and with knives cut seat belts and pulled out a few passengers. Within moments, the snow-covered field was soaked...
...civil servants in Algeria, who had quit work in answer to the strike call of the extremist Front de l' Algérie Française, were sacked from their jobs and the Front itself ordered dissolved. The same fate was visited upon the Front's right-wing affiliate in France. The Europeans reacted with a numbed and disconsolate silence. Groaned a European extremist: "What will we do? What can we do? We've tried, and France doesn't understand...
Dismayed Enemies. At week's end. De Gaulle had sailed as safely through the political storms as through the rain and hail of Algerian weather-though he had stayed out of Algeria's biggest cities. In Paris, his right-wing opponents in the Assembly were reduced to hand-wringing pleas (''the motherland cannot abandon its sons!"). There were only three leaders with the dynamism to rally the European extremists of Algiers-General Raoul Sa-lan, fiery Pierre Lagaillarde and Jacques Soustelle. once both a Cabinet member and close friend of De Gaulle. Not one of them...
Because of the loss of wing Bill Beckett. Welland will use Jim Dwinell on one with Dave Grannis and Dave Morse. Dave Crosby, who skated briefly as a forward Thursday, will return to defense with Harry Howell. With the possible exception of Dean Alpine, the Crimson will skate the same personnel that played against Northeastern. Alpine suffered a concussion in the 5-3 win and remains a question mark...
Dave Morse led the Crimson attack with two goals, and Tim Taylor, Jim Dwinell, and Tom Heintzman contributed one each. The only problem for Cooney Weiland's sextet in beating its toughest challenger in Greater Boston was the loss of junior wing Bill Beckett early in the game...