Word: comet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this deal to crow about, the reduction will scarcely help Detroit because the Common Market's new auto tariff against outsiders is still a stiff 22% O. the U.S.'s 6½%), and exorbitant excise and horsepower taxes increase the European price of Ford's Comet to about $5,000. The U.S. also agreed to tariff easing on certain machinery, electrical gear, steel products, glassware and diamonds. Europe countered with lighter duties on radio and TV transmitters, planes and aircraft parts...
...whole hog"-a hint of armed force-if Britain's terms appeared to endanger what he regards as his personal domain. Said he: "The federation is mine." When the news finally arrived, Sir Roy exploded. "This is not good enough." he roared, ordering; a London-bound BOAC Comet in mid-flight to stop in Salisbury and pick him up. Then he headed for the British capital in a last-ditch effort to get the plan changed...
...entire frame of mind in which Jews outside Israel condescend to help Israelis financially is wrong, in Comet's opinion, for the essence of Zionism is the unity and totality of the people. Therefore Jews in and out of Israel must work as partners, not as older and younger brothers, and the state must be the product of the people as a whole. This concept transcends the idea of a political state, and since it has not yet been realized Zionism was not made useless in 1948, he said...
...this, said Comet, that suddenly thrust the responsibility for leadership upon the American Jewish community, which was in fact not ready for or capable of it. And out of America has come no Jewish culture. Jewish intellectual work in secular areas, and Jewish education has become negligible and sometimes completely meaningless...
...Comet concluded by outlining the specific goals of Zionist youth movements in college...