Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...higher salaries (up to four times as much) are part of the inducement for emigration, the underlying reason is that Britain today does not give its scientists the prestige, the independence, or the research facilities offered by the U.S. And right now, Britain is in the midst of a crash program of university expansion (TIME, Oct. 11), which has further reduced the funds, space and time for research that the nation's top brains demand. Said Professor Ian Bush, 35, a brilliant physiologist who is taking a nine-man team from the University of Birmingham to new quarters...
...about to be left in the turn, Chrysler has a crash program to bring out its four-seater Barracuda by the time the Mustang is introduced. Priced to match the Mustang, the Barracuda uses a Valiant chassis and engine, but has a racy new Italianate body. At week's end American Motors introduced its new experimental sports car, called the Tarpon. It is the forerunner of a fastback four-seater that the com pany plans to introduce during the '65 model year. Designed more for comfort than for high performance, the new U.S. sports cars have heavier, larger...
Thinking in large, impressive figures, as is his habit, Negligence Lawyer Melvin Belli asked a million dollars for his clients. Belli was representing the widow and children of William Kapell, the brilliant 31 -year-old pianist killed in an air crash in 1953 while returning home from Australia. At the trial in 1961, Belli bolstered his argument with a lustrous array of musical talent to testify to Kapell's genius and high earning power - Rudolf Serkin, Artur Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski. But before the jury could award a penny...
...district court in Salt Lake City. Since that court's docket is relatively uncrowded, Ritter occasionally sits in other districts as a visiting judge. In San Francisco two years before, he had presided over an other damage-suit trial that resulted from the same British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines crash that killed Kapell...
...legs as shock absorbers, Zimmermann boldly catapulted over the bumps with great, bounding leaps of 45 ft. or more. Crouching low, he plunged headlong down an almost vertical precipice; his speed shot up to 60 m.p.h., his skis chattered, and the wind whistled through the ear holes in his crash helmet. Finally Zimmermann was in the homestretch, zipping through the Velodrome, a 400-yd. series of banked interconnecting turns, and on down the last, steep traverse, caroming off a final bump-and flying across the finish line in midair. Time...