Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Habits. A normal economic system, said Nixon, "just like a normal human body, does not and should not run at full speed all the time. There are times when it must slow down so that needed changes can be made and bad habits and faulty practices corrected...
Varig of Brazil offers champagne-and-lobster catering. The turboprop Britannias of Aeronaves de Mexico feature speed; they have cut the New York-Mexico City flight to 6½ hours. Safety standards are generally high because inter national airlines must meet the require ments of the strictest country they land in, which in the case of 26 Latin American airlines...
Test instruments revealed that the third stage of the rocket did not fire, and as a result, the projectile "failed to attain the speed required to send an object into orbit around the earth...
...other big appropriation on his desk was the $7.2 billion highway bill. Eisenhower didn't like its dimensions very well either. He had wanted to speed up highway spending by $2.2 billion over the next four years, but the Democrats had pumped this up to $1.8 billion in the next fiscal year alone. Far more serious, in the President's eyes, was the fact that the bill abandoned the established principle that states should pay 50% on primary and secondary highways, provided instead that they should only pay 33¼%, and that the Federal Treasury should advance that...
...rock-tempered coastline. Overlooking the soft seas, in a typical Spanish villa complete with a Beverly Hills bar inside an East Hampton beach house, a powder-pale beauty (Anne Baxter) writhes in poor-little-rich-girl loneliness. Her father committed suicide, his mining trust fell to dust, and her speed-happy brother apparently died in a car crash. But her real worries are all boxed up and neatly hidden away in the beach-house chimney-oodles of stolen jewels. So long as they do not go up in smoke, the lady seems secure...