Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone in Stockholm seemed to have set his alarm clock to sound off be fore dawn. By 4 a.m., cars, motor scooters and flower-decked taxis that had been hired months before streamed downtown to the Kungsgatan, the city's main street. There they waited through a solemn radio countdown. At the stroke of five, loudspeakers blared: "Now is the time to change over." In a brief but monumental traffic jam, Sweden switched to the right side of the road...
...days leading up to the in evitable strike, the auto industry seemed to have only business-as-usual on its mind. The Ford Motor Co., which United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther had singled out as his initial strike target, was showing no interest in round-the-clock bargaining. At General Motors, where the threat of a strike was not so immediate, officials cheerfully predicted 1968-model sales of over 9,000,000 cars, up from an estimated 8,600,000 during the current model year. And throughout the industry, automakers went about introducing their new models (see following story...
...clock in the morning of April 20, three men walked along a narrow mountain road toward Muyupampa, an isolated little farming town in the foot hills of the Bolivian Andes. They all admitted that they were on the way down from a guerrilla camp in the high jungle, although just what they had been doing there remains a matter of some dispute. Word that they were on the way had somehow preceded them to Muyupampa. Detachments of troops and plainclothes national police had moved into town the night before. They arrested the men without a fight...
...Pittsburgh's Papercraft Corp., it is Christmas in August. Last week, at the firm's modern one-story plant, some 1,000 employees worked round the clock in three shifts to produce gift-wrapping paper for the 1967 holiday season. Traveling around the premises in an electric golf cart was President Joseph M. Katz, 54. Shouting to make himself heard above the roar of the presses, through which rolled 600 miles of paper daily, Katz exulted: "You can't eliminate Santa Claus...
Forlorn but dignified, the Plaza Hotel faced the mob. All morning long the radio had been urging every potential truant in New York to show up at 59th Street and Fifth. ("The Beatles are now over Newfoundland; touchdown minus 71 minutes on our Beatles Countdown.") By two o'clock there were 3,000 girl teenagers, 1,000 boy teenagers, and 13 press agents...