Word: crashing
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...forts went largely unnoticed. Thus, followed to the very end by the unpopularity that had been his lot in three years as an honest but uncharismatic President of Brazil, Humberto Castello Branco last week went to his grave at the age of 66, victim of a plane crash in the fifth month of his retirement. Said former Planning Minister Roberto Campos in a eulogy: "He had an aversion to easy promises and theatricalized results. He deeply dreaded creating false hopes in the people. He preferred to accustom the people to the discipline of truth...
Most recently, Eisendrath has been venturing cautiously into pop. One of his prize purchases is Bob Stanley's Crash (Indianapolis 500). All this has paid off handsomely. Enrollment in Washington's art courses has tripled since 1957; gallery attendance has risen too. And Washington is also providing adults in the community with a stimulating alternative to the more orthodox St. Louis City Art Museum. Steinberg Hall plays host to three or four major traveling exhibitions a year, and one of them, an Alexander Calder exhibit, recently pulled 40,000 visitors -30,000 of them from off the campus...
Graham had long tried to crash the Iron Curtain. In 1959, he undertook a five-day visit to Moscow but, as he tells it, "I was not allowed to preach because they said I didn't have a preaching visa." Last summer Poland denied him an entry visa after he had made tentative plans for crusades in Warsaw and Cracow. Last fall, while attending an evangelical congress in West Berlin, Graham accepted a preaching invitation from Yugoslavia's Baptist Federation. Surprisingly, the Tito Red regime did not object...
During World War II, several medical schools adopted a similar timetable to turn out six-year or even 5 ½-year wonders. The big difference now, however, is that the new accelerated courses have no "crash" concept behind them. What they have done is lop off many of the nonscientific aspects of a professional education. Most of the courses utilize the summer months, provide about the same training as normal medical-school programs. "These programs are designed to let the bright young man go at his own pace," says Dr. Shevis Smyth of the Association of American Medical Colleges...
Though they seem determined to dish out as much as they take, the Chinese by last week were suffering from such acute persecution feelings that when four of their diplomats in East Germany were killed in an auto crash, the embassy hung out posters saying: "Down with the East German revisionists who murdered our comrades...