Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent years, the militant Black Muslim movement has been saddled with a falsely fierce image. Fear of the sect was magnified four years ago when Malcolm X, a New York adherent turned apostate, was murdered. Many viewed the killing as Muslim vengeance. The sect's aura of violence was enhanced by the fiery rhetoric of the organization's leader, Elijah Muhammad, who often castigated Caucasians as "white devils...
...worn by one-half of all the cars and trucks in the U.S., announced that 4.9 million of its autos were being recalled for safety modification. It was by far the largest recall to date, accounting for one-fifth of all the GM cars produced in the past four years...
...million Chevrolets built between 1965 and 1968. Lethal fumes from damaged or aged exhaust pipes have, in a few models, seeped into passenger compartments through opened seams and defective plugs in the underside. There have been 30 reported cases of such leakages, and carbon monoxide was blamed for four deaths in Chevrolet Impalas. Another possible danger in some 20 models is a plastic cam, used to regulate the engine's idle speed, that has at times broken and dropped into the throttle linkage, jamming the accelerator and making it difficult to stop...
...first round of 4.9 million certified letters asking owners to bring in their cars will cost $1.7 million. Much of all this might have been avoided had the company listened to Edward A. Gregory back in 1965. Gregory, then an inspector at the Fisher Body St. Louis plant, filed four reports that poor sealing in the rear-quarter panel of Chevrolet car bodies permitted seepage of exhaust fumes...
...least four regular and so far uncommitted Communist divisions-most of the week's ground probes were carried out by local forces and guerrillas-were reported on the move in III Corps, the vital eleven provinces that surround Saigon. An attempt at the capital itself was not ruled out, and the allies responded by tightening defensive cordons around the city, by now a veritable fortress...