Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, highway crews worked fast to clear away massive slides that isolated two passenger trains for two days near the roiling Columbia River. An Air Force plane dropped 1,000 Ibs. of food to the 300 stranded passengers, who were finally evacuated safely. In California, gale winds whipped bridges off their foundations and stranded hundreds of motorists on the Red wood Highway. Almost every town along the Eel River, in the northwestern corner of the state, was under water. City officials in Rio Dell put out orders to knock down telephone and power poles to convert the main street into...
Although things are moving, they aren't moving fast enough. Top priority should be given to education. "The only country to approximate the U.S. in the percentage of GNP earmarked for education is Costa Rica," says the C.E.D., with the result that "it has the largest per capita GNP of the region." Education should be pushed particularly on the primary levels. Employers should initiate on-job training programs, a practice not widely enough spread...
...U.C.L.A.: a 115-93 victory over Boston College in the finals of the Milwaukee Classic basketball tournament, first of traditional round of big-college holiday battles. Last year's N.C.A.A. champion, U.C.L.A. ran its 1964 winning streak to five in a row, baffling the fast-breaking Eagles with a full-court "zone press"-despite 34 points by B.C. Guard John Austin, who was playing with an injured wrist...
...panic is huge, Erie begins his hour-long self-sell monologue. The spiel sounds like a matter of life and death, because it is. The air is never airy in O'Neill. It is obdurate and oppressive, and his characters slash at it and through it with fast talk, sweet talk, crying talk, any kind of talk. It is a poet's speech-not that O'Neill could ever write a poetic line, but in the sense that a poet regards prose as an inadequate tool to express a man's longings. The poignant intensity...
...actually be put inside the body. A hopeful lead comes from a plastic called polyvinyl pyrrolidone, now widely used as the setting agent in women's hair sprays. PVP membranes pass chemicals between the blood and the cleansing water of the artificial kidney about three times as fast as the cellophane membranes now used. PVP has another advantage for an implantable kidney: like Silastic, it seems thoroughly compatible with the blood, and has little tendency to provoke clotting...