Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moves eerily above the darkened floor of the planetarium. Explains Chartrand: "The machine moves the sun across the sky and accurately reproduces the movements both of the stars and the planets. In a sense it is a machine that can virtually take you any place in any time." The big steel dumbbell is a German-made Zeiss planetarium projector, 12 ft. high weighing 5,500 lbs., with 27,000 parts. Images are beamed up from the two large spheres at either end of the projector. Its control booth, situated at the edge of the auditorium, looks like the cockpit...
...country has become a vast rumor mill. Says an elementary school teacher at the U.S. compound of Shahin Shahr, near Isfahan: "We alternate between panic and being very blasé. Some days we don't get a thing accomplished." Desert picnics, once popular, are now regarded as too big a risk for families to take. Says one American housewife: "It's a big social event to sip coffee and listen to the BBC." Armed guards patrol the gates and grounds of American compounds, and at Shahin Shahr, colored flags alert residents to the state of security...
...tooted last week that they intend to raise production in the first quarter by about 7.5% over the high levels of a year ago and that this should help keep the economy humming along. But while Americans are buying a lot of cars, they are also buying too many big, fuel-thirsty models, and the auto marketers are trying to swing sales toward smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles...
Ford last month jacked up prices on all its big cars, including its fast-selling Thunderbirds (by $128) and behemoth Lincolns (by $267). To encourage small-car sales, Ford left intact the prices on its fuel-efficient but slow-selling Pintos and Bobcats...
...increases that have been tacked onto sticker prices of large cars and big engines should more than offset any fines that Washington may hand out. Thus, the cost of compliance with the new regulations-or the fines-ultimately will be picked up by the inflation-weary car buyer...