Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a year, Ford Motor Co. engineers have been dropping Thunderbirds and Mercurys nose-first from cranes; they have also run cars into concrete barriers, then watched the crack-ups on stop-action movie screens. As a result of the lessons learned, Ford President Arjay Miller announced in Detroit last week that some 1969 models will have collapsible, impact-absorbing front ends as a safety feature...
Avtorkhanov concedes that Brezhnev and Kosygin have granted what amounts to unprecedented concessions to democracy. Russian industry has introduced the profit motive. The Red army, which played a hand in Khrushchev's fall, has been given political rights and powers that, for the first time, crack the monolithic power structure of the state. But Avtorkhanov warns that none of these alterations should give much comfort to the West. Russian Communism, he says, comes perilously near to being self-perpetuating, proof against every perturbation beneath it: "The party apparatus is superior not only to the state but to the party...
...looks are deceiving. The damage appears to be substantial and even frightening to the untrained eye, and workmen have to tear the walls down to the level where the bricks are bulging and cracked. Only one of the faults has been corected, so far, but one of the workmen said that his company was not going to work on the other crack because "Harvard doesn't have enough money...
...falling out. A tough professional soldier who sticks rigidly to the traditional army code, Onganía is a man of quiet authority and determination. After President Arturo Frondizi's overthrow in 1962, it was Onganía as commander of the army's crack motorized cavalry corps who routed a military faction favoring old-style, jack-booted dictatorship, and who later paved the way for Illia's election in 1963. For his pains, Onganía was made a lieutenant general and named army commander in chief. But as his country's problems piled higher...
France, which has been the target of German aggression three times in the past century, is understandably leary of a reunited Germany, as are Poland, Czechoslovakia and Russia. Among Gaullists, the problem has always been pushed to the background or else treated with gallows humor, such as the crack Novelist François Mauriac once made: "I love Germany so much that I want there to be two of her." Yet recently the inevitability of German reunification has become part of the French consciousness. "All will go very slowly," De Gaulle said last month. "Germany itself must evolve...