Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved into a new career as a fulltime union official. Elected president of Lodge 707 in 1931, he moved on to the Brotherhood's headquarters in Cleveland in 1942 as a clerk, promptly started a climb up the ladder of union bureaucracy by wrestling with a 90-day crash course in shorthand so that he could be come a stenographer (he still uses shorthand to take voluminous verbatim notes at meetings). Blessed with an adhesive memory for names and faces, he firstnamed countless delegates at Brotherhood conventions over the years, and in 1953 he first-named his way into...
...recalled the stirring days of Walter Reed's famous campaign against yellow fever in Cuba at the turn of the century, when one researcher died and others had close calls. For the two physicians and the technician had been working selflessly, at great risk, in an internationally supported crash program to pinpoint the cause of a mysterious disease, and to find a preventive...
...Bessie Smith, a play of eight scenes in its Boston premiere, has an internal impetus which manages to overcome the lethargic tempo of this production. Bessie Smith, the great Negro blues singer, died in Memphis, Tennessee, because she was not permitted in a white hospital after an automobile crash. This play, in examining the anguished relations among a tyrannical nurse, a liberal intern, and an Uncle Tom orderly in a hospital admissions room, reveals the human sources of this futile death. The death motif is central to all of Albee's plays, and in this one, the physical mutilation offstage...
...projects is at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta. There, to run its malaria research, PHS has installed a staff inside the walls, with its own offices and laboratories, and a separate ward for the prisoners who volunteer to be bitten by malaria-bearing mosquitoes. World War II's crash campaign to find quinine substitutes depended on federal prisoners...
...Britain's Second Covent Garden Properties Co. Ltd., which has a 24.5% interest in Trizec; six representatives of Second Covent Garden had been forced off the board of the U.S.'s Webb & Knapp by Zeckendorf last year. Zeckendorf was less concerned about his Canadian setback than his crash drive to rescue Manhattan's Webb & Knapp from its dangerous debt load. He has already sold off $75 million worth of assets, but must sell $75 million more. His biggest test comes this week when 25 of his properties in New York City will be auctioned...