Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...captain had to be summoned before Franz Josef Strauss would give up his loaded automatic. "I carry it because I've been under threat for weeks," explained Strauss, formerly West Germany's Minister of Finance. After receiving a warning that "the bullet's already in the barrel," he plans to draw first in case of attack...
Believing in Bargains. The brake on auto sales has all but eliminated the visceral promotions plugging four-barrel carburetors and twin cams to a rollicking dragstrip beat. "The American car-buying public is interested in economy," says Ford Advertising Manager Paul Tippett. "Our ads have to be practical rather than emotional." Accordingly, Ford's spring campaign has an "economy drive" theme. Can economy be made exciting? Answers Tippett: "Advertising does not have to be glamorous as long as it is not dull...
...Valdez, despite concern that it will endanger fragile tundra along the way. The Administration holds that it has already established a strong ecological program, but the Commerce Department chose Earth Day to announce the granting of a permit for Hawaiian Independent Refining Inc. to build a 29,500-barrel-a-day oil refinery on 120 acres near Honolulu...
...their lawns going pitter-pat, pitter-pat," says former U.S. Women's Champion Billie Jean King. "As a result, the only ones who watch tennis are those who participate in the sport." Billie Jean has a point. Apart from the most important matches, tennis ranks slightly above barrel jumping and kite flying as a spectator sport. The fault is not with the game but with its hidebound governing bodies. Continually bogged down in petty disputes, they have been more concerned with self-preservation than promotion. Last week Alastair Martin, president of the usually staid United States Lawn Tennis Association...
...remaining in the hills. Vang Pao took an active role near his threatened base at Long Cheng. An enemy mortar position was giving his troops severe trouble, and counterbattery fire had failed to knock it out. Vang Pao, with U.S. Ambassador George Godley as a witness, sighted along the barrel of a 105-mm. howitzer as if it were a squirrel rifle and barked instructions. The first round was wide of the mark. So was the second. Using "Kentucky windage," Vang Pao made another adjustment. The third round scored a direct hit. Later, he knocked out an enemy machine...