Word: crash
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...letters a day asking for teaching assignments. In Grand Rapids, Mich., getting some teaching jobs has become almost as hard as getting into Harvard, with 50 applicants for each position in history. The massive New York City school system, which until two years ago conducted summer crash training programs for apprentice teachers, began school last week with about 4,500 extra applicants...
Crusades in Conflict. For both sides, the costly contest was almost a jihad, or holy war. To Leonard Woodcock, the quiet, scholarly leader who took over as president of the U.A.W. last May after Walter Reuther died in an airplane crash, the strike was a call to arms for a younger generation of workers who know nothing of the union battles of the '30s. In meeting after meeting, he has told the men to dig in for a long, bitter siege, warning that they will have to go without strike pay after the union's $120 million...
...hardware-store owner who had served in the state legislature, Bumpers has been a Scoutmaster, Sunday school teacher, World War II Marine sergeant and smart-stepping bandsman (trumpet) at the University of Arkansas. He took over the family store when his parents were killed in a 1949 auto crash, later sold it to buy a 360-acre farm and raise Angus cattle. He sold some of the cattle to finance his campaign against Faubus...
...punctured by one bullet or even by several; it will simply develop a slow leak. More important is the danger that passengers or crew could be shot, as well as the possibility that a stray bullet could sever hydraulic lines or other vital controls and cause the plane to crash. Last week, however, President Nixon's proposal to put sky marshals on U.S. planes received the support of Najeeb Halaby, president of Pan American World Airways, and the U.S. Air Line Pilots Association. ∙ One nation that has been willing to risk gun fights in mid-air is Israel...
...original plan, carefully drawn by Governor Francis W. Sargent in consultation with insurance-industry leaders, would have provided the first clear-cut test in any state of the "no-fault" principle of auto insurance. At present, a person injured in an auto crash must prove that the accident was someone else's fault before he can collect any insurance award. Many accident victims-35% in Massachusetts-are unable to prove fault and never get a penny; others overload the courts and the insurers' investigative machinery with claims that take up to four years to settle...