Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Auto Workers and Meany's rival for mastery of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., challenged Meany in a resounding resolution accusing the confederation of "complacency, lack of social vision, dynamic thrust and crusading spirit." The attack might have caused a rousing floor fight, but Reuther chose to stay in Detroit...
...through thousands of pages of Government reports and technical journals, then distills his findings into mind-grabbing slogans. One article on meat, for example, was titled "Watch That Hamburger!"; his most effective apothegm during the automobile ruckus, "They Can't Sell Safety," was a telling put-down of Detroit's ad language...
Unbrainwashing. The son of a Lebanese-immigrant restaurateur, Nader had the usual American experience with shoddy goods as a boy in Winsted, Conn. He worked in a meat market, had a close friend who was seriously injured in an auto wreck (though not through any fault of Detroit: the friend fell asleep at the wheel). Later, he was horrified during his undergraduate years at Princeton when songbirds on the campus began dying as a result of DDT spray-long before Rachel Carson's Silent Spring raised an anti-pesticide furor...
Elected to the Class Committee, were: William F. Perron of Adams House and Jackson, Miss., Edward J. Gotgart of Dudley House and Boston, David C. Ray of Dunster House and Detroit, Mich., and Jeffrey R. Schmidt of Eliot House and Minneapolis, Minn...
...design for a four-passenger Safety Sedan, developed under a $385,000 contract by Fairchild Killer Corp.'s Republic Aviation Division. Billed as a car to be developed with "an aeronautical approach," the sedan could, according to the safety commission, be mass-produced as cheaply as Detroit's lower-priced models, be far ahead in safety. Though New York State has no plans to build it, the design has such features as four-wheel drive for maximum traction and resistance to skidding, an all-window defrosting system, four roll bars, a "driver's periscope" affording wide-angle...