Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Mileage. In switching cars to natural gas, the big advantage is that the internal-combustion engine can be retained. The only requirement is a natural-gas mixer that fits on top of the carburetor and feeds the new fuel to the present combustion chambers. A dashboard control permits the driver to switch from natural gas in polluted areas to regular gasoline on the open road. With natural gas, the company claims, engine oil lasts up to a year, sparkplugs fire for 50,000 miles, and valve jobs are usually unnecessary. Better yet, 100 cu. ft. of natural gas gives...
...batsmen took up the slack with muscular aplomb. The club's big guns, Outfielders Cleon Jones and Tommie Agee, blasted three home runs and eight R.B.I.s between them; Rightfielder Art Shamsky batted .538 for the series. Overall statistics: 27 runs, 37 hits (including six home runs) and a phenomenal team batting average...
...most surprising part of the current exhibition. In Paris he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited such accomplished work at the Musée Luxembourg that Rodin invited him to work in his studio. Brancusi refused. "Nothing grows well in the shadow of a big tree," he said, and spent the next two years working in virtual isolation. His last work in a traditional mode is the tender portrait head, Torment. Then, in 1907, he made the great break with the past that determined the whole future course of his career...
...supported a host of social causes, and well after his retirement he continued to work against the war in Viet Nam and in behalf of the black population that lived in poverty not far from Riverside's neo-Gothic splendor. "Always take a job that's too big for you," he once proposed as a code of life, "and then do your best." No one followed that code more faithfully than Harry Emerson Fosdick...
...companies regularly take over large foreign concerns without much fuss. When a foreign corporation tries to take control of a big U.S. firm, however, Washington immediately starts sounding the alarm. That was the cynical conclusion drawn by many Europeans last week from the U.S. Justice Department's announcement that it would sue to prevent British Petroleum from acquiring control of Standard Oil (Ohio). In fact, much to the chagrin of the State Department, Justice lawyers appeared to be mechanically applying their strict interpretation of antitrust law to what they saw as just another merger-without appreciating that this merger...