Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...substantial reduction in the national debt (now $290 billion), and outrageous not to put $4.2 billion to better use than paying off the debt. Education, which Eisenhower has chosen as a typical area where a "Federal hypodermic" should not be administered, can and must be aided significantly by the "crash, centralized governmental action" that the President condemns. If 1960 is to be "the most prosperous year in our history," as the President claims, it must show advances in the public as well as the private sector, and in his richly metaphorical tirade against inflation Eisenhower might have instead devoted some...
...want one." Dwight Eisenhower saw no need to talk over his program for the congressional session that convenes this week. Reason: he plans no brand-new programs, no departures from the basics he stressed in earlier sessions - balance the budget, fight inflation, uphold foreign aid, resist crash programs. He has decided to hold the line on the domestic front while concentrating, in his final year in the presidency, on one paramount undertaking: the quest for peace. The President's single-minded objective this year, say White House aides, is to make solid progress toward thawing cold-war tensions...
Pressure & Management. Part of the blame can be laid to the pressures inherent in a crash program. But as the failures pile up, Martin is getting so edgy (Martin crews call their pads at Canaveral "the inferiority complex") that the experts accuse it of becoming "fail-safe happy," of burdening the Titan with too many extra safety relays and circuits, gadgets that in themselves fail...
...Club; $3.50), opens with a worried author asking a Scotland Yard acquaintance to check the whereabouts of ten men-and refusing, because of British diffidence and the exigencies of plot, to say why he needs the information. A few days later, the writer dies in a mid-ocean plane crash. To armchair hawkshaws, it will be as unmistakable as a corpse on a carpet that this is not coincidence. And when it turns out that most of the men on Adrian Messenger's list have died by violent accidents, even the authorities are clever enough to make the same...