Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spirited debate has raged within the Administration for seven months. Opposing the SST were Nixon's science aide, Lee DuBridge, and Hendrik Houthakker of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Supporting it were Secretary of Transportation John Volpe, Federal Aviation Administrator John Shaffer, and a genuine American hero, Charles A. Lindbergh, who personally presented the case for the SST to the President...
Lacy Elementary School in Hondo, Texas, is so overcrowded that some classes meet in a makeshift room built into the balcony of the auditorium, and in two noisy rooms off the gym. The 500 pupils, mostly Mexican American, are packed so closely together that illnesses spread rapidly among them...
...small car glided out of an American Motors plant in Kenosha, Wis., drove quietly into the night and braked to a stop in a farm field. There, where the air was clear and city noise was absent, the passengers alighted and began loudly slamming the car's doors. After each slam, the men placed stethoscopes against the car body and listened to the lingering vibrations. Half an hour later, everyone climbed back into the car and returned to the plant...
This midnight ride of American Motors engineers was a regular test in their effort to develop doors that slam with what automen call a solid "thunk." One result showed up last week as American Motors introduced the Hornet, its new small car, with an advertisement that urged: "Open a door and listen for the reassuring thunk you get when you close it." In auto showrooms, the sound of a car door slamming touches some responsive chord in the frazzled psyche of the American buyer-and all the automakers know it. "There is very little to go on when...
Company chiefs like to test the thunks themselves. Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend sometimes drives subordinates to distraction by slamming doors repeatedly in the ear-splitting confines of a testing garage. American Motors Chairman Roy Chapin likes to go into his company's executive parking area to try out the thunk. Ford has a jury of product-development specialists to pass judgment on thunks...