Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano, known as a driver when he was Lyndon Johnson's domestic-policy chief, began shaking things up in his new post almost immediately-if in small ways. He decided that signatures on staff memos should appear on the bottom instead of the top; he dismissed as inadequate the daily four-page "green sheet" news summary prepared for the HEW Secretary and ordered up expanded editions of as many as 20 pages. He also dismissed one-third of his own staff, figuring he could get along with about 100 people...
French Director Claude LeLouch made such a big hit with his 1966 movie A Man and A Woman that he is calling his first U.S. production Another Man, Another Woman. It is not, however, a sequel to his soft-focus romance between a French racing driver and a young widow. This time the story takes place in the American West in the 1870s. A French immigrant wife (Genevieve Bujold) arrives by stagecoach in dusty Arizona. After cleaning up in a steaming pay tub (a cold bath costs 50 and a hot bath 100), she meets and becomes involved with...
...arduous route, which led the snowmobilers along busy, narrow roads, through woods and across ditches, quickly took its toll. A light covering of snow was soon worn away by early starters. Coarse, rutted ditches caused spills; unexpected rocks forced some sleds to veer into guardrails and trees. One driver was hit by a car; ten others got lost on a lake. At day's end only 172 contestants remained in the race...
Rules limited each driver to two mechanics, who could work on his battered vehicle for just two hours a day. Some drivers carried spare parts in the trunks of cars driven by friends and made their own repairs. For the big factory teams, there were designers and mechanics on call in 40-ft., parts-stuffed support vans. The difference between the amateurs and the pros was evident in other ways; the John Deere team, in training for three months, was forbidden the nightly boilermakers and sat off to the side of each stop, drinking ginger ale and plotting strategy...
...roadside culvert. Occasionally they would tear onto the shoulder of the road, skimming around a car or truck before hurtling back into the ditch. Driving a 450-lb. snowmobile at high speed on rough terrain is like riding a brahma bull-an exercise in keen judgment and balance. As Driver Al Bergquist, an Illinois farmer in his saner moments, told TIME Correspondent Dick Woodbury, "You're whipping along at 70 m.p.h. and you charge over a hill, and you just don't know what's there...