Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writing and eating. Then he is rolled face up, in what his aide calls "the rotisserie," to sleep or watch TV. Still, Ted Kennedy, 32, is in good spirits, and with reason: his doctor says that he is making "an excellent recovery" from that near-fatal June 19 plane crash in western Massachusetts, and will not need an operation for the proper alignment of his three broken vertebrae. Nerve reflexes and muscle functions are back to normal, his fractured ribs are completely healed, and if all goes well Teddy should be out of bed by Christmas, back...
...Penny Crash. Windfall had delayed the announcement until it got 35 core samples prepared for assay. But many miners felt that experts like the MacMillans could have seen the core's value, or lack of it, much earlier. Other companies controlled by the MacMillans held 900,000 shares in Windfall-and Canadian law, unlike that in the U.S., does not force company officers to disclose what they have bought or sold. The Toronto Stock Exchange took a close look at Consolidated Golden Arrow Mines Ltd., one of Viola Mac-Millan's companies. At the exchange's request...
...hand, England's upperclass elite is painted as being comprised of persons wearing the right tie, speaking the proper accent, boasting at least four quarterings of nobility, and lacking any suspicion of brains or talent. Yet both this society, and an ambitious young man's relentless efforts to crash it, are viewed with a benign complacency that weakens any satiric intent...
...advisers slogging around Viet Nam. After an inspection trip by General Maxwell Taylor, then military representative of President Kennedy, the latter announced a crash 'program to bolster Diem even further. In six months U.S. troops in Viet Nam burgeoned...
...water beetles and classify their sounds. At Stanford Arthur Bleich, 27, is studying film production by making a 7½-minute documentary called The Rise and Fall of the American Breast-"a serious critique of America's fetish about female bosoms." Stanford is also giving eight-week crash courses in Chinese and Japanese, in which students are required to converse, eat and drink in the style of the language they are studying-or at least try. "I'm going to hwei-jya, change my yi-shang, jump in my chi-che and pick up my syau...