Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slim harvest means hunger, discontent, and a flight from the starving countryside into the already bursting bidonvilles. Morocco is also confronted with the need of developing its own administrators, technicians and civil servants (the government's daily business is still conducted by some 11,000 Frenchmen). A crash educational program has been devised: private houses converted into schools, teachers drafted, and any Moroccan with a good education is asked to teach 20 others what he has learned. The Ministry of Education has blueprinted a plan to put every Moroccan child into school within five years, at a cost...
...walking miles out to the dirt fields near San Antonio to watch the U.S.'s flying cadets putting their de Havillands through their paces. So he applied for and was accepted in the Air Corps flying school, survived the school's average of one crash landing for every 30 hours of flight training, and its 60% washout rate to win his wings. "I was certainly not in the H.P. [Hot Pilot] category," he said. "The bombardment group specialized in slow thinkers, and that's where they...
After the crash, the Cabinet hurriedly summoned Vice President Carlos Garcia home from Australia, where he has been attending the SEATO Conference. A nondescript politician forced on Magsaysay by the Nationalists, Garcia is unlikely to be more than a caretaker until the presidential elections, to be held this fall. Just who that successor will be, no one can predict. Magsaysay so completely dominated Philippine politics and affections that in all likelihood he would have been nominated by both parties. There was no one like him -a man in whom Filipinos saw their best, just as he always saw the best...
Died. Eugenio Castellotti, 26, wealthy Italian playboy and racing driver, who streaked to his greatest triumph by winning Italy's Mille Miglia last year; in a crash of his Ferrari during testing for the forthcoming Monaco race; in Modena, Italy...
Died. Ramon Magsaysay, 49, President of the Philippines Republic; in an airplane crash near Cebu, the Philippines (see FOREIGN NEWS...