Word: exhaustiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making money and caring for a wife and three children were not enough to exhaust Baruch's energies. He sought a wider stage and found it in Washington. In 1915, having caught the attention of Woodrow Wilson's Administration with a well-thought-out plan for mobilizing U.S. defenses, Baruch set foot in the White House for the first time. Through the next half-century, he returned often...
...devices. Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff recently accused the auto industry of "dragging its feet in the field of safety measures," urged federal action. Congress has already authorized the General Services Administration to require, beginning in September 1967, 17 different safety items-from shock absorbing steering wheels to exhaust controls-on the 60,000 passenger vehicles it buys annually for the Government. Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson has introduced a bill that would require these same safety items on all new cars by 1968. Last week a Senate subcommittee began hearings on a bill that calls for installation...
...must know where we are going. Just because a 'safety' tag is hung on a specific proposal, there is no reason to assume that it is either effective, worthwhile or economically justified." Nonetheless, Detroit realizes that pressures may eventually force it to adopt many more safety and exhaust-control features (California will require exhaust-control devices on all 1966 cars) -and it is preparing for that...
...Enzo Ferrari, 67, aren't running off with all the money on the world's racing circuits this year, there is one 3000 coupe that is worth its weight in lira back home. For years Rome's Questura security cops found themselves choking on crooks' exhaust fumes in their put-putting Fiats. But now, basta, banditti! In its own garage on the Via Nazionale sits a shiny black Ferrari with bulletproof windshield, a radio always tuned to headquarters, and enough notches in its tailpipe to frighten the Mafia. Last week it roared out to overhaul...
...17th lap, one of the three team Ferraris was already out of action. On the 64th lap, Rodriguez' V12 Ferrari prototype was hitting 150 m.p.h. when the tread peeled off a rear tire and flailed the underside of the car, smashing the battery and exhaust pipes. Ferrari mechanics slapped on a new wheel, and turned the car over to Britain's Grand Prix Champion John Surtees. But the rear axle snapped on the 116th...