Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mention one very important reason why imports into the U.S. are rising at such a stupendous pace: shoddily made American products. Not only are imports often much lower in price, but in many cases they are of a quality that is unrivaled by the U.S. We bought a Japanese car that is one of the finest built vehicles I have seen, and gets 31 miles to the gallon of gasoline. This can be repeated in tape recorders, optical goods and many more items. U.S. industry and labor have to sit down and do a lot of soul searching...
...writing a cover story on fast-moving Bobby Kennedy. Barrett knew just what the reporters were up against. He began writing about Bobby back in 1964 as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. Among his more harrowing memories is an interview he conducted in a speeding car. Senator Kennedy was driving with one casual hand while the other banged his knee for emphasis. Barrett, his eyes searching for disaster on the road ahead, had an understandably difficult time taking notes...
...moonlight meeting" with Bobby and Ethel. A mammoth traffic jam resulted. Finally arriving in the city, Kennedy stood on his convertible's hood with his Irish cocker spaniel Freckles at his feet. At Mt. Vernon and North Champion Avenues in the Negro Near East Side, friendly crowds engulfed the car. Admirers fell over each other and into the motorcade's path; Kennedy aides had to scoop children from harm's way. One mother plunked her baby on Ethel's lap, trotted alongside for ten blocks while Ethel held the child. At one point, Bobby, his shirttails flying, his hair mussed...
...must cope with militant blacks. - Dr. Peter G. Bourne, a staff psychiatrist at Stanford University Medical Center, spent three months observing a twelve-man Special Forces "A" team-the Green Berets-operating in the remote, Viet Cong-infested Central Highlands of South Viet Nam. Comparing them to racing-car drivers, Bourne told how the enlisted men in the group repeatedly challenged their commanding officers to attempt missions fraught with the possibility of injury and death. In turn, the men attempted to match their commanders with death-defying exploits of their own. Such compulsive courting of disaster contrasts sharply with...
...most likely to be accepted; the steel company will probably become the biggest single unit in a conglomerate that already includes such divisions as Wilson meats, sporting goods and chemicals, Okonite cable and floor coverings, airplane, missile and electronics manufacturing and, since last February, Braniff Airlines and National Car Rental...