Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just as streamlining will not improve the performance of a rocking chair, it will not improve the efficiency of an automobile. Performance of a vehicle will not be affected until it reaches at least 50 m.p.h. With a national highway speed limit set at 55 m.p.h., aerodynamically "slippery" cars designed to achieve better fuel economy are meaningless...
...Athens, Ga., former Secretary of State Dean Rusk had slumped in his living-room chair and watched the event on TV, wondering fleetingly why his friend Jimmy Carter had not invited him. In the middle of the program, the invitation arrived by mail, giving Rusk one more chuckle about Government efficiency. Although he is a veteran of many dramatic ceremonies, Rusk was caught up in the simple program on the North Lawn. Some of his old juices began to flow. He hoped that the Administration was moving strongly behind the scenes to help along the peace process. "This...
...Jones' pleading with his followers to "die in dignity" by sipping a cyanide-laced drink. A few of the cultists protested. Some women screamed. Children cried. Armed guards took up positions around the camp to keep anyone from escaping. Other cultists, assembled around their leader's wicker-chair throne in an open hall, applauded as Jones implored in a high-pitched, agitated voice: "Please, for God's sake, let's get on with...
Though the trial began after midnight, about 200 members of the "general public" crammed into the small, whitewashed room. Hoveida sat on a chair in front of the court, which consisted of a mullah and two Iranian judges from the now disbanded secular courts. Composed but groggy because he had taken a sleeping pill earlier, Hoveida looked around in amazement and said he had been promised an afternoon session. The presiding judge replied: "Day or night makes no difference, because this is a revolutionary court...
...prefer to remain unarmed. "If you're captured, having a gun is a death warrant," says the Los Angeles Times's Jack Foisie. But the armed correspondents maintain that such ethical hairsplitting is irrelevant to their workaday peril. Says one: "Anyone who can sit in an editorial chair and demand that reporters ride around the Rhodesian countryside unarmed should come here and try it for himself...