Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first journalistic assignment Dickey covered the Apollo 7 blast-off for LIFE. While other reporters filed millions of words on the event's scientific and political import, the prolific poet (six collections in the last eight years) turned instead to the human drama: as they plunge with...
...illnesses simply as "URD" or "URI" (for upper respiratory disease, or upper respiratory infection) and let it go at that. Whatever its nature, the illness was emptying schools and offices, stripping military installations of active-duty personnel, and decimating Broadway casts. Jane Morgan in the title role and eight other players in Mame had to yield their places to understudies. The cast of George Ml had five out. Playing the barber in Man of La Mancha, Leo Blum became so ill that he fell off the stage, and since his understudy was ill, the stage manager had to pinch...
That harsh charge was echoed repeatedly during a three-day congressional hearing on the $25 billion-a-year auto-repair industry-a branch of U.S. business that collects an average $250 annually for each of the 100 million cars on U.S. roads. The public hearing followed an eight-month study that faulted the automakers and the nation's 400,000 auto-service outlets for the high cost and low quality of maintenance...
Detroit is trying to recruit more and better repairmen for its dealers. General Motors, for example, conducts free training courses for high school graduates and offers similar courses for men in the armed forces just before they are discharged. American Motors uses eight vans to take the training classrooms to the mechanics because, as a company officer says, "the mechanics won't come to us." And Detroit also has plans for a longer-term solution. Within the next two years, Ford, G.M., and American Motors all intend to bring out cars that will be smaller, cheaper, less complex...
Pipeline or Rail. Now that success seems almost assured, Atlantic and Humble, as well as eight other companies, will sink wells this winter. The season is favorable because the muskeg has frozen hard enough to support the rigs, and the huge swarms of bugs that plague workmen in summer have disappeared. Meanwhile, oilmen and speculators have applied for 5,000 new leases on tracts all over the state. Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, whose tribes were there before the white men, originally claimed 469,000 sq. mi. (80% of the state) under an old, almost-forgotten law. Now they are asking...