Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps the message. To careful observers, it seemed that Foster, from his starting position on the outside of the fourth row, thought he saw daylight in the middle of the third row, tried to squeeze through, and missed. He bumped into the man ahead, starting the chain-reaction crash. Foster denied it, said that someone, "I don't know who," had faded into him, forcing him out of line, and into another...
...owes its present diversified strength to a basic change of policy that was begun in 1961. Traditionally disposed to regard the military with a mixture of suspicion and stinginess, the nation has slashed its forces drastically after every war. Crash mobilization was necessary for the U.S. to fight in Korea and, even after that lesson, another large reduction took place when the Eisenhower Administration enunciated the doctrine of massive retaliation. This strategy assumed that any war would quickly become a major nuclear exchange of short duration, and thus assigned big money to nuclear weaponry to the detriment of conventional forces...
Mandragola, set in Italy at the close of the quattrocento, uses the stones of Florence to soften up a girl's resistance. As an impregnably virtuous Renaissance lady enduring a crash course in fertility, Rosanna Schiaffino is stretched out in bed with large, warm rocks on her stomach, then is marinated in giant tubfuls of broth, and finally is sealed, screeching, into a body-length hot-water bag to test another old wives' tale. More than 400 years after it was penned by the cynical Renaissance moralist, Niccolo Machiavelli, this ribald comedy classic still looks exuberantly...
...party behind him in November. Just to show how united and strong that party was-and to prevent a nonorganization man from sneaking in-Republican leaders asked and received a winning vote for Walter Alessandroni, the party's candidate for Lieutenant Governor who was killed in a plane crash ten days before the election...
Died. Walter E. Alessandroni, 51, Pennsylvania's able attorney general, a canny state politician who in 1962 masterminded William Scranton's successful gubernatorial campaign, and recently developed his own political ambitions as a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor next fall; in the crash of a Piper Aztec (along with his wife); in the Allegheny Mountains near Somerset, Pa. Whereupon Scranton and top state Republicans urged party members to vote for Alessandroni anyway in this week's primary in order to defeat his opponent, Goldwaterite Blair F. Gunther, which would enable Scranton to name a replacement...