Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even in success, la vie en rose eluded Edith Piaf. Her greatest love, Boxer Marcel Cerdan, was killed in a plane crash in 1949, and her first marriage ended in divorce. Four separate automobile accidents all but crushed her frail body, and she was racked with ulcers, jaundice, arthritis, and cirrhosis of the liver. She took to drugs and young men, married her second husband, Hairdresser Théo Sarapo, 25, only last year, when she was 46. Each misfortune marred her voice but only seemed to give new poignancy to her artistry. Despite doctors' warnings, the nearly crippled...
...than the Administration had requested. The action closely followed President Kennedy's United Nations speech proposing a joint moon venture with the Russians, which prompted many dollar-conscious Congressmen to ask whether there was still any real need to conduct the Apollo moon shot as a cash-eating crash venture (see SCIENCE). And further slashes may be in prospect. The subcommittee, reconsidering its vote, wound up in a 4 to 4 deadlock on a later move to pare the appropriation to a bare-bones $4.2 billion. The measure now goes before the full committee, where Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon...
Bristling Unknowns. Any re-examination of the manned lunar exploration project only reinforces the obvious: it is not the sort of effort in which a crash program is likely to justify the cost in either money or manpower. Some jobs do lend themselves to the crash approach; some complex tasks are indeed susceptible to all-out, crash attack. The wartime Manhattan (atom bomb) Project, which was attacked simultaneously in three different, expensive ways, was a world-saving success, but the basic physics of the atom bomb was well understood in advance, and nature was not likely to hold surprises that...
...FAVORITE MARTIAN (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Newspaper Reporter Tim O'Hara (Bill Bixby) stumbles upon a Martian who has crash-landed on earth in the premiere of a new comedy series...
Dickie will hardly suffer academically. The free school, which is still passing the hat to pay for its year-long $1,000,000 crash program, is nongraded and amply supplied with teachers. It has a well-qualified school superintendent, Neil V. Sullivan, who is on leave from heading the schools of East Williston, Long Island. Because Dickie is far ahead of many of the Negro 17-year-olds, his father expects him to get "darn near tutorial education...