Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colorado's breakdown was one of the worst in the history of U.S. law enforcement-and Denver furnishes a case history demanding study by every U.S. community. How did Denver's cop corruption start, and how did it spread...
...mechanic, and the endurance of Job. Riders use special, lightweight motorcycles with high ground clearance (for traversing rocky terrain), special gears (for hill-climbing power), and waterproofed engines (for fording streams). Bounced like Yo-yos by their bucking bikes, they must make their own repairs in case of breakdown, take care of their own first aid. Spills are common: in the Welsh trial. Russia's Vikton Pylajev broke both legs; five other motorcyclists somehow escaped serious injury when they plunged, one after another, down a 60-ft. embankment. Fatigue is universal: 86 competitors failed to finish...
After experiencing a well-earned nervous breakdown. Leckie is brought round to his bourgeois salvation by the advent of Alison's baby and World War II. Registering for military service, he wondered what to put down as his profession. "I thought to put 'gentleman,' but decided that I did not look the part. 'Bankrupt?' Accurate, but liable to cause prejudice. By what had I kept myself alive for the greater part of my adult life? By faith. Faith and appeal to motherly instinct in the middle-aged . . . Evidently I had no profession...
...TAXES. Nowhere has the breakdown in communication been more evident than in the Administration's vain effort to put through a $1.7 billion tax credit for plant modernization. Though intended as a gesture to business, it died because businessmen opposed it, figuring that it would only defer what they really wanted: a $5 billion across-the-board liberalization of depreciation allowances. Businessmen are also worried about the possibility of higher taxes in January and petty tax annoyances right now. An airline president gripes about the Internal Revenue Bureau's crackdown on convention expenses; a major oil company president...
...African Queen on wheels, the film tells how a poor young Irishman (Boyd) and his Corsican bride (Greco), who despite her poverty slinks around in a little something by Maggy Rouff, run a truck full of beer through the West African bush. The plot grinds grimly from one boring breakdown to another-a roadblock, a snapped shaft, a flash flood-until the heroine, after fifty minutes of mishap, says, "Whew! I never thought we'd make it." They didn...