Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hospital was evacuated. A quarter of Harlingen's population was taken to higher ground in outlying areas. Upstream at Mercedes (pop. 10,081), frantic crews dumped twelve-ton bales of car bodies into the gap at the broken weir, but the arroyo swallowed everything with hardly a gulp, and downstream the tide climbed inexorably. Then liquid fingers poked through a levee north of Harlingen, sending a second spearhead of water toward the heart of town. Surrounded, isolated, exhausted, Harlingen was engulfed...
Portraits of Mao are everywhere: in every home, on every wall, every train, every truck, every car, every bicycle, in every hotel room. My bed at the Tung Fang Hotel, the only place where foreigners can stay, was topped by a huge portrait of Mao with eyes that follow you all over the room. On another wall was a framed quotation of the Chairman's in a facsimile of his own handwriting. At one point I was the only Western visitor in Canton, and I sat alone in the huge baronial dining room of the hotel, faced...
...have and still be rated as "medically needy." Oklahoma set it at a low, low $2,448 for a family of four. In most states the amount ranged between $3,000 and $4,000, with an infinite variety of limitations as to what cash, liquid assets, equity in a car, and life insurance the family might be allowed to keep. California, though it set the four-member family income limit at a median $3,900, offered an estimated 2,500,000 eligibles every conceivable health service that HEW would approve...
...other three are look-alikes in their corporate backgrounds. All are graduate engineers who have been G.M. divisional heads. Cole came from Chevrolet, where he was best known for having developed the Corvair; though the car has had recent safety and sales problems, it is still counted a success in G.M. circles. An articulate man with an outgoing personality, Cole should be the favorite for the big job if G.M. is anxious to polish its public relations image, which became somewhat tarnished under austere Fred Donner. But Cole has a black mark on his record: he was less than stringent...
...announcing its 1968 increases, led off the week's price play. The company declared an average 3.8%, or $89, boost in its compact Americans (now $1,923 for the two-door model) and medium-sized Rebels ($2,420 for the four-door sedan). Tagging its new Javelin sporty car at $2,459, A.M.C. also boosted the luxury Ambassador line by some $120, to $2,671, including now-standard air conditioning. With that, the company loosed another breezy salvo in its new ad campaign: "Either we're charging too little or everyone else is charging too much...