Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week. "Like the old man, we fake it." The trouble, of course, is that Ring's boys do not fake it like the old man. Phillip, Dennis and Lindsay (Brother Gary has his own act) sing roughly like three C-plus scholars at a fraternity party. They are clean-cut, modest and likable; after listening to them for a little while, one longs to hear three singers who are dirty-cut, vain and loathsome, but talented...
...Mistake. At first the CAB men checked out the mechanical variables. They pored into the history of the 15-year-old plane, found it sound. They recovered its engines and much of its navigational gear, gave them a clean bill. They ran 25 hours of test flights and landings in the Charlottesville area, scrutinizing the ground control stations. Finally they decided that mechanical failure had not caused the crash...
...music of gongs and cymbals, borne to the cremation site, a soccer field outside town that had been piled high with sandal wood logs. Laotians reverently brought thousands of gifts to accompany "the King to nirvana, including a box of U.S. laundry detergent to keep him clean. Next day, rain and high winds swept the field, knocking down ceremonial arches and scattering the King's gifts. Laotian monks and elders sadly shook their heads. Said one: "The old King is angry with us. We have ruined the country which he ruled so peacefully for more than 50 years...
...Ministry of Education, a slab on pilotis with a new feature: a honeycomb of sun-shading breeze-admitting vanes at the windows, called brises-soleīl. That single example spread to give all the major cities of Latin America, notably Brasilia, their present look of clean, high, colorful, modern business buildings...
...Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers, the largest union in G.E., read from a 16-page speech, moderate for him, criticizing G.E. for mismanagement. Carey cited the speech made two weeks ago by G.E. Director Henry Ford II, in which he declared that business had better clean its house. To Ford's message, said Carey, "we say amen and Godspeed." Seated on the stage with the other directors, Ford flushed, as if not wishing to be reminded of what he had said. A woman shareholder joined in: "I thought I'd better warn Henry...