Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear from "Battle Over a Budget" [Jan. 20] that in his first weeks as Governor, Ronald Reagan has shown an ineptitude that astonishes even those of us who opposed his election. His economic myopia was not unexpected; in his crash program to "save" the California economy in 1967, Reagan has, by shortchanging the university, hit one of the institutions most responsible for this state's wealth and prestige. What is surprising is that he has also bungled his public relations. His inconsistent statements, his embarrassing lack of information, and his failure to consult the legislature and university officials before...
When he died in an African plane crash in 1961, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjdld left behind a book that he had been working on secretly for 36 years, a slim volume of 600 poems, prayers and aphorisms dealing with "birth and death, love and pain." Hammarskjold's Markings (TiME, Oct. 23, 1964) was an instantaneous success. "Everybody owns Dag Hammarskjold's Markings," said retired Episcopal Bishop Malcolm Endicott Peabody. "But few have read it. Few of those have understood it." What fascinated the public, though, was far less the book's content than the striking contrast...
Detroit has responded by talking up its electric-car research, demonstrating new batteries and fuel cells, and driving newsmen around in battery-powered compact cars. And Ford President Arjay Miller insists that a crash program is on to build an electric car. But most auto officials believe that between five and ten years will pass before moderately priced electric cars can be produced in volume. In Washington last week, to emphasize the need for electric cars, New York Democratic Representative Richard Ottinger drove an electric Dauphine, powered by silver-zinc batteries (developed by New York's Yardney Electric Corp...
Anyone who watched television during the past year must have seen a pretty but slightly misty-looking 5-ft. 4-in. blonde tumble out of a highflying airplane, crash a speedboat onto a beach at full throttle, ride a wagon hauled by galloping horses, plunge through an opening drawbridge, fall off a roof, and accidentally lean on a dynamite plunger. At the moment of greatest peril, the pixy hollered something like: "Stamp out cramped compacts!" or "Kick the dull driving habit!" or "Don't follow the leader. Drive it!" After which she miraculously escaped disaster-crying "Join the Dodge...
...spectator's face, he may suffer the illusion that he is right there in the car, and that if he doesn't find that brake pedal pretty damn quick he's never going to make the next corner. And there is one phony but heart-stopping crash in which a racing car leaps off the road surface at better than 100 m.p.h., turns sideways in the air and for one long, insanely impossible instant goes skittering along the face of a cliff like a rampaging firecracker...