Word: crashing
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...Chinese are taking crash courses in foreign languages. More than 1 million copies of Radio Peking's English course have been sold in the capital. Some 10,000 Chinese students will be dispatched to study overseas, a development that will exert a profound, lasting effect on Chinese culture as the students return. Some of the cultural juxtapositions are startling: Haute Couture Designer Pierre...
...test meaningless because the LOFT reactor has less than 2% of the output of a typical atomic plant. Said his colleague Robert Pollard: "It's like using a kite to prove a moon rocket will work." But LOFT scientists rejected that argument. Said one: "It isn't necessary to crash 747s against buildings to test their safety." One thing was indisputable: the emergency core cooling system did work. Just to make sure that it does the job under different conditions, the Commission will stage about 20 more LOFT tests through the 1980s...
Coury's major gifts, as he would be the first to concede, are in sales. "Sales like ours don't just happen," he snaps. "We make them happen! And I sell the sizzle!" How he does this could serve neatly as a crash course in the fine points, and pressure points, of selling records. Two basics from the Coury primer: "Nobody gets rich on singles: singles advertise an album. Most important: get your records on the radio...
...folks in Grand Prairie, Texas, Waldrep arrived in Leningrad last October. He was the second American sports figure among the nation's estimated 200,000 spine-injured patients to make that pilgrimage this year. (The other was Race-Car Driver Bob Hurt, who suffered spinal injuries in a crash at Indianapolis in 1968.) Last week, after six weeks of treatment, an ebullient Waldrep returned home to Texas with an increased sense of feeling in his legs and feet. More important, aided by braces, boots and a walker, he is able to stand and, he said, even "walk...
There are doubtless many reasons. An odd but important one is that the '60s lasted too long. As folklore, decades seldom observe the calendar's nice limits. The '20s actually began with the adoption of Prohibition; the '30s, launched by the 1929 crash, did not end until 1941, when the U.S. entered the big war. The election of Dwight Eisenhower as President in 1952 began the time consistently, if imperfectly, remembered as the quiet '50s. The furies and griefs that are recalled as the essence of the '60s began...