Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dancing was also interestingly representational. When the girl first gets to Paris and attempts to adjust to her new environment, she is imitating the motions of people in street scenes and of the painter. But before she has left, she has affected as well as adjusted to a new community, for the others are imitating her. And probably the most beautiful part of the whole show is the representation of the love affair, and its culmination, in an unmistakable, yet tasteful manner...
...Continental, Ford turned two prototype GTs over to Carroll Shelby, the brash Texan who designed the Ford-powered Cobra, a solid contender in production-class races last year. Shelby spent 1,000 hours preparing for the race, figuring gear and axle ratios, tuning engines, using computers to help adjust the suspension to the track conditions at Florida's Daytona International Speedway. In the time trials, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez won the pole position by clocking 113.7 m.p.h. in his V12 Ferrari prototype, and Shelby decided he needed a little strategy too. His plan: turn California...
...Lieut. Governor Carroll Gartin, addressing the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, counseled that "we must adjust to change or be destroyed by change." Said Gartin: "Businessmen, industrialists and civic leaders must speak up and speak out in a positive manner. We must not let the irresponsible become the voice of Mississippi, because in that silence we do our people the gravest injustice...
...calls for moderation, none was more remarkable than that issued by the 2,500-member Mississippi Economic Council, the state's foremost businessmen's organization. The council issued a statement urging Mississippians to accept and "adjust to the impact" of the new civil rights law. That law, it said, "cannot be ignored and should not be unlawfully defied." The statement demanded that "registration and voting laws should be fairly and impartially administered...
...first seven months after the revolution, Brazil's notoriously fractious Congress passed a record 237 laws and constitutional amendments, more than a few at government pistol point. Among them were measures to increase taxes, adjust ridiculously low rents, head the country toward a central bank, start a sensible land-reform program, and assure private foreign investors of a square shake. When Congress reopens in two weeks, Castello Branco has another armful of proposals. He intends to let the air out of the government's bloated administrative payroll, a key move against inflation, deliver a plan for development...