Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, as the U.S. waited for Khrushchev's answer to its invitation to a U.N. summit conference, home-front diplomats got to work on a crash basis to draft a comprehensive-if belated-U.S. policy for the Middle East. Essence of the plan: 1) a permanent new United Nations police force to keep the peace, monitor Arab radio broadcasts, news sheets, calls for assassinations, etc.; 2) a new international-assistance plan for Arab refugees still homeless after the Arab-Israel war of 1948; 3) a new international economic development plan. Considered but discarded to date: an arms embargo...
...last year at Yale when, as swimming captain, he had been called upon to show her the campus. An encouraging correspondence developed. But Wendy Marshall, 21-whose husband John Birnie Marshall broke 28 world records swimming "for God, my country, and Yale" and died in an auto crash near Ballarat after fathering her child, John Jr.-turned aside Taft's proposal with a gentle no. Peter said he would go on to Europe, study public affairs at Paris' Institute of Political Studies. Said Wendy Marshall: "At the moment, Peter is really a professional schoolboy. However, I am planning...
...plane flyer, was taking an examination for a multi-engine pilot's license, had at his CAA examiner's order feathered one engine of a Beechcraft to test his ability to handle the plane in a single-engine emergency. Something went wrong; the men died in the crash in an Arkansas cornfield...
...Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., 30, U.S.A.F. jet pilot, Korean war ace, holder of the world's altitude record (nearly 24 miles up in the Bell X-2 rocket plane), designated to fly the missile-like X-15 now being built to go higher than 100 miles; in the crash of his F-104 Starfighter; near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif...
...Baby in a Month? If a crash program, atomic style, could get started, would it pay off? Probably not. according to President John T. Connor of New Jersey's Merck & Co.. Inc. (TIME, Aug. 18. 1952), who gave the committee the results of his company's private survey: "There is real concern that the public is being misled into believing that you can buy discovery with money, that nine times as much money will cure nine times as many diseases or one disease in one-ninth the time. As one of those interviewed...