Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castle. When the test-detection system that Strauss had demanded disclosed that the Russians had set off their first A-bomb on Aug. 29, 1949, a new controversy split AEC and the nation's atomic scientists. Should the U.S. start a crash program to develop a hydrogen bomb? Strauss pleaded for it, but Lilienthal and the other three commissioners argued that the U.S. had a sufficient atomic superiority. J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of a general advisory commit tee of scientists to AEC, maintained that the doubtful project would only divert personnel from the proven A-bomb program. To Strauss...
...quota of conspicuous public housing works, which barely scratches the surface. Last February in Mexico City, the government inaugurated a much more ambitious $2,560,000 social welfare center, which will provide medical care, vocational training and recreation for 60,000 slum dwellers; the government has also started a crash program to raze the city's slums and replace them with low-cost housing. Much of Latin America counts on the Alliance for Progress to further slum removal. In its first year, $145 million is earmarked for urban improvement. Typical projects: $16 million to Colombia for low-cost housing...
...family travels, usually to Venice, Paris or London, or to the Irish coast, where they have bought a house. Charlie likes to walk the slum streets of London, where he grew up as an orphan. When they travel, the family flies in two or three planes so that no crash could claim all of them...
Citing the elaborate, and apparently highly successful, crash program that has been carried out in high school physics and mathematics teaching techniques as a model, Mayer indicated that only such a serious and concentrated approach could yield fruitful results...
Much of the credit for the evening's success, however, goes not to Stone, himself, whose methods for reviving Gilbert and Sullivan are occasionally those of an overworked horse doctor (great merriment is derived from a bit of business that goes roughly: "CRASH [large offstage noise] followed by some line such as: "But soft, he approacheth"), but to the magnificent female lead whose services he was fortunate enough to secure, a Miss Mary Lou Sullivan...