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Word: crashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Groovy's closest friend, Galahad, who once ran a communal crash pad (dormitory), muttered about revenge and then, at Groovy's funeral in Pawtucket, R.I., played a turned-on taps on his dead friend's harmonica. In Greenwich, Conn., under a chilly autumn rain, Linda Fitzpatrick was buried, after a simple Episcopal service, in a cemetery not far from the rolling, red-leafed bridle paths of Round Hill Stables, where she used to ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Speed Kills | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...Oiens could have been rescued in a matter of hours had their plane been equipped with a crash-locator beacon ($100-$300), which shines a light visible up to ten miles and sends a radio distress signal 60 miles. Unknown to them, their two-month drama was lived out only eight miles from busy U.S. Route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Death in Trinity Mountains | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...guests and fish begin to stink. After 109 minutes, this particular Fish proves an intolerable guest. Not that the film is without distinction: it was directed by Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek). It may also be the homosexiest movie since Modesty Blaise. Two fliers (Tom Courtenay and Colin Blakeley) crash-land their nuclear weaponry on a mythical Greek island and spend the rest of the film in their Jockey shorts playing peekaboo with the villagers. Backing them up are a squad of sylphish soldiers dressed in mufti: the cunningest white booties, fishnet T shirts, lavender and puce shorts. Backing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: No Zorba | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Down to the Spot Welds. The man chiefly responsible for the car's swift success is Terry Beckett, 43, a London School of Economics graduate. Once the decision to design the Cortina was made, Ford began a crash program with an eight-man design and management team under Beckett's direction. With an accelerated production schedule-only 20 months from programming to production v. the usual 30 months-Ford could not tolerate errors. To avoid them, Beckett filled a 400-page "Red Book" with each of the car's 10,000 parts listed according to projected weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Cortina Takes the Crown | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...government has moved to remedy the situation. It has just set up a three-year crash program to train more people for service jobs, promised them more pay and a set of new titles of the kind previously reserved for tractor drivers and steel workers. Examples of some of them: "Master First Class" in plumbing or "Master Higher Class" in hotel management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Service, Please | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

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