Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bombs rained down on the MIG bases of Kep and Hoa Lac and on two rail bridges north of Hanoi. Much of the bombing was what the pilots call "nuts and bolts": such small but vital bits of North Viet Nam's war machine as bridges, barges, trucks and trains...
...that recalls themselves are any thing new. For years, Detroit has been calling back cars to correct belatedly discovered flaws. The auto companies have usually gone about that part of their business by confidentially instructing dealers to get in touch with the owners of suspect cars. Then came last September's federal requirement that Washington be notified of all call-backs -and National Traffic Safety Bureau Administrator William Haddon Jr. was soon making all the details public...
Convinced that what Detroit calls "recall campaigns" could no longer be hushed up, General Motors decided to try turning the publicity to its own advantage. Henceforth, decreed G.M.'s top brass, the company would take the initiative away from Haddon by disclosing recall campaigns on its own. Thus, at the same time that registered letters went out to the car owners involved, Pontiac announced to the press last November that it was calling in 16,000 Tempest, GTO and Le Mans cars to correct a suspected steering-shaft misalignment. By February both Chrysler and Ford had adopted...
Trouble in the Civilian Sector. Still, the European combines have yet to profit from rising civilian demand. Orders for Caravelles, Tridents and null have been disappointing, and British, French and West German manufacturers are struggling to get a medium-distance "Airbus" off the drawing boards. Plans now call for delivery in 1971. In the meantime, U.S. companies may well corner most of the market for subsonic jet transports...
...chose not to wear his ancestry as a social decoration but to accept it as a present doom and to argue with the Pilgrim Fathers as if they were living men. His poems call the Puritan spirit of New England to sharp account and make his ancestral portraits step from their frames and answer to Lowell. Thus his dialogue becomes an argument about his own nature, in terms of the Calvinist obsessions with sin, damnation, God and Satan. Lowell does not possess his ancestors; they possess...