Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more and more conservative investors began to foresake the low (two and one half to three per cent) return rates on safe bonds for the higher income and better big money opportunities of stocks. As stocks became fashionable, Harvard's bundle climbed swiftly from trace holdings before the 1929 Crash to 35 per cent of the total endowment...
Toward a Better Life. The Hamlet Project is also trying to cope with Viet Nam's tremendous teacher shortage. Of the 31,286 primary grade teachers in the country, only 10,500 have had any training at all. Nearly 9,000 of these were pushed through a crash three month training program under the Hamlet Project at centers in each province. These "90day wonders" are assigned to hamlets as soon as an area is considered secure...
Died. Major General Thomas F. Farrell, 75, U.S. Army engineer and key figure in the development of the first atomic bomb, who in 1944 was recalled from crash building projects in India (the Ledo Road, the pipeline to China) to the even more urgent job of deputy to Manhattan Project Boss General Leslie Groves, sharing vital information that Groves previously held alone, assuring a backup in case of accident, later coordinated operations for the A-bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; of cancer; in Reno...
Accident. A metal-crunching car crash shatters the silence of a warm Oxford night. In the wreck lie a boy (Michael York), mangled and dead, and a beautiful girl (Jacqueline Sassard), in shock but uninjured. A university don (Dirk Bogarde) runs to the car, recognizes its occupants as his students, and gives the girl his hand. As she emerges, she steps on the dead boy's face-an act that symbolizes what is past in her life and what is to come in the film. The don takes the girl into his home, puts her to sleep...
...Latin American Presidents also hope for additional U.S. aid to undertake a crash program to upgrade health and educational facilities throughout the Southern Hemisphere. Finally, they will discuss what can be done about the arms race. At present, Latin America is in the ridiculous position of spending more money per year ($1.7 billion) on jet fighters, battleships and other weaponry than it receives in U.S. aid ($1.2 billion). Even some governments run by former military men now seem to agree that such outlays must be drastically scaled down...