Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the U.S., in 1954, started its crash program to build long-range missiles, not everyone was as sure as Draper that full inertial guidance would prove accurate. Radio guidance systems were therefore developed simultaneously. They are very accurate, but they require elaborate ground equipment that is so expensive that separate guidance cannot be provided for each missile. This being the case, the missiles at a base cannot be fired in salvo. Each must wait its turn-and during the wait an enemy hit may wipe out the base itself. All future U.S. missiles will be inertially guided. Since they...
...Silver (born Silverstadt), 58, longtime drummer and conductor of vaudeville-pit orchestras, who in 1922 collaborated to turn the cry of a Long Island Greek fruit peddler, "Yes! We have no bananas," into a song worth nearly $70,000-most of which he lost in the 1929 stock-market crash, and failed to recover in 75 lesser-known pop works, -such as Icy-Wicky-Woo and What Do We Get From Boston? Beans, Beans, Beans; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Brooklyn...
Serious Crisis. None of the panaceas proposed by self-appointed healers of the medical profession offer much hope. Mechanization and automation with punch cards and computer diagnoses might help a physician to treat more patients, but not the way they want to be treated. Crash programs for research intensify the problem. Dr. Joseph C. Hinsey, a former dean (Cornell) and now director of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, points out that proposals to appropriate billions for research may dry up the supply of physicians to apply the research findings-because the men siphoned off into "pure" laboratory work...
Saint-Ex was born in 1900, and so was too young for combat flying during World War I. It was the only omission of a flamboyant career, and the flyer made up for it by his death in 1944, when, overage and stiff from crash wounds, he disappeared over the Mediterranean at the controls of a U.S. reconnaissance plane. The legend he left is a rare compound of literary brilliance and high gallantry; no biographer, including the present one, has been wholly successful in dealing with...
...widowed mother and the rest of the Saint-Exupery children, but only acute hindsight could find anything extraordinary in the child. Even flying did not capture him immediately. He learned to pilot a plane to while away his period of army service, liked it despite a training crash that cracked his skull. For three years after he was demobilized. Saint-Ex clerked for a tile firm...