Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with and not against Superintendent Gross, who saw clearly that the union's demand for a voice in policy could be turned into a constructive force. Gross hopes now to revamp New York's school system drastically, using such sharp tools as team teaching, programmed learning, a crash program for slow readers. To give teachers a genuine feeling of "getting results," Gross may well reshape administration from stem to stern. Calmly taking the measure of his task, he says: "I don't think the school system can be administered effectively in its present state...
...been recently and properly vaccinated, by a doctor who checked the injection site to make sure the shot "took," is most unlikely to get smallpox. But when smallpox erupts where many people have never been vaccinated, or were vaccinated too long ago, doctors face a dilemma. A crash program of vaccination and revaccination may help, but nearly always there are victims already infected for whom this is too late. Gamma globulin has reduced the severity of many cases, but the stuff is scarce, costly, and seldom available where it is needed...
...greatly simplified United's reservations operations, but more than just business considerations prompted Pat Patterson to introduce one-class service. Two years ago, when a United DC-8 ran off a runway in Denver and hit a truck, 16 passengers died not from the impact of the crash but from burns and fume inhalation after crowded conditions in the coach section prevented them from getting out. Patterson is still bothered by the tragedy. Asks he: "Do narrow aisles and sardine seating provide adequate evacuation of jet aircraft? In all good conscience, just how many passengers can you squeeze into...
...politics, interior decoration, sex, art, child care and the management of husbands. There is Libby, devoutly literary; Dottie, the only Bostonian at Vassar who is not identifiable by tweed; Helena, impeccably educated from birth by a cultivated clubwoman mother; Polly, whose father has gone "loony" after the crash of '29; Kay, beautiful and serious, most responsive to the conscience of The Group; Priss, hereditary Vassar, destined for social work; Pokey, rich and horsy; Lakey, "the Mona Lisa of the Smoking Room," who has everything. Rich, beautiful and haughty, Lakey has a taste in clothes, people and ideas that...
...mother home. Willard Gilliland gave the kids another hour for ice cream and cake, then piled them into his new Volkswagen Microbus. He never got home. Only four miles short of his house, a car approached in the wrong lane. Gilliland swerved but could not escape. In the crash, Gilliland was killed, along with his son Raymond, 15, and his daughter Julia, 12. The three younger girls were badly injured...