Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bulging Warehouses. Following Khrushchev's 4½-hour speech, other Communist bigwigs shook the audience with a series of angry complaints. Most collective farmers do not know the first thing about using chemical fertilizer; the Ukraine is planning a crash program to educate 4,000 "skilled fertilizer appliers." Superphosphate fertilizer arrives at the farms with only 20% of the required chemical nutrients; the rest is worthless ballast that gets lumpy and heavy in the rain. Russia has an impressive 561 soil laboratories, but most of them have only one or two employees and the wrong equipment...
...defense. He encouraged foreign investment and industrial expansion, had more than $500 million in foreign exchange reserves socked away, spurred a healthy 6% annual rise in the G.N.P. When Communist guerrillas stepped up their campaign of subversion in the scrubby, impoverished northeast provinces, Sarit set in motion a crash $300 million program of medical, economic and educational development that undercut the Red threat. Though his rule was absolute, he always knelt before Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, encouraged Thais to accept the King as head of state and symbol of national unity...
Finger of Fate. All this worries many thoughtful academicians. Biologist Caryl P. Haskins, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington warned last week that Big Science crash projects threaten to create "massive imbalances" in U.S. research. The Ph.D. drive also alarms liberal arts colleges that cannot compete with big universities for research-minded students and professors. What is happening, asks Columbia University's Provost Jacques Barzun, "to the beautiful notion of developing the imaginative and the reasoning powers apart from marketable skill?" In a day when "one sheepskin to one sheep is no longer enough," he says, "the liberal...
Thomas E. Sanderson '65, a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, was killed yesterday morning in a plane crash near Hingham, Mass. The 28-year-old junior was co-pilot of the plane at the time of the crash...
There were no survivors, and no immediate clues to the crash. It was the second-worst commercial single-plane disaster in history, surpassed only by an Air France crash in Paris last year that killed...