Word: fla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stuart, Fla...
Perfect Missile. A stern word from a boss started the whole Z.D. idea three years ago. At Martin Marietta's plant in Orlando, Fla., a quality control engineer named Philip Crosby had succeeded in cutting defects on Pershing missiles to half the acceptable level-but his boss complained that that was still too high. Incensed at first, Crosby soon began to agree: "If management tolerates a low standard, people work to that standard. Well, why not a no-defects job?" He persuaded workers in his department to sign no-defects pledges, soon surprised the Army by delivering a Pershing...
...Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The cases range from trumped-up traffic violations against Mississippi rights workers to group petitions for several hundred defendants (including Massachusetts' Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, the Governor's mother) who were involved in last spring's racial demonstrations in St. Augustine, Fla...
...Angeles Dodgers), and a fantastic team batting average of .325. What's more, they were going home to cavernous Yankee Stadium. Said Pitcher Ford: "The Cards will die in Dead Man's Gulch." But the Cards had something going for them, too: a retired stripper in Venice, Fla., named Fifi LaTour, who had been sending them postcards all season long predicting that they would win the pennant. Now Fifi was phoning in her World Series forecast. "She says we won't come back from New York," exulted a Cardinal. "She says we'll win it there...
...also neglected to act on the projected increase in monthly benefits to the twenty million who now receive Social Security. The modest increment in benefit checks had been approved by both Houses, but it was pulled down with Medicare when Sens. Russell Long (D-La.), George Smathers (D-Fla.), and Albert Gore (D-Tenn.)--presumably under orders from the White House--refused to agree in conference committee to any bill without Medicare attached...