Word: friction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another area of friction has been the "family lawyer" plan proposed by the CLAO last fall. They hoped that clergymen and social workers would help them select families whose credit, housing, or social status indicated a possible legal crisis in the near future. A CLAO staff assistant would then be assigned to the family to help it avoid the potential crisis...
...major point of friction was the logistical and procedural snarl of returning to Washington. Manchester implies that it would have been much easier on Mrs. Kennedy if Johnson had left the presidential plane to her and the coffin and used the similar vice-presidential jet himself. Says Manchester of the two Boeing 707s: "Each carried the same equipment, both were guarded." On the contrary, says Roberts, U.S.A.F. 26000, the presidential craft, "then contained far more and better communications equipment-transmitting, receiving, coding and decoding-than any of the back-up jets...
...Friction developed this year over another aspect of federal-university relations. This controversy was an old one, but it arose again with the establishment of the Kennedy Institute of Politics as a part of the John F. Kennedy School of Government (changed from the Graduate School of Public Administration). The point of contention: the involvement of scholars in current government policy problems...
Pock-Marked Face. The lunar tides when the moon was near produced friction and violent heating of the interior and surface layers of the earth, Singer believes. This could well have led to the sudden degassing of rocks, volcanic activity and the creation of an atmosphere that probably consisted of water vapor, carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Thus, the capture of the moon by the earth may well have produced an atmosphere much earlier in the earth's history than anyone had heretofore believed- and led to the evolution of life itself. Terrestrial gravity had an even more spectacular effect...
...been at odds with Abernethy ever since he became board chairman last June. Onetime Auto Salesman Abernethy delighted in hooting that New Boy Evans knew nothing about the business. Evans, for his part, upstaged Abernethy at press conferences, privately complained that his suggestions were being ignored. Friction grew worse when A.M.C. wound up fiscal 1966 with a $12,648,000 loss-its first since 1957. Finally, for all of Abernathy's cigar-chomping ebullience, sales of "Roy's Cars," as the new models are called at A.M.C., have been so disappointing as to force a ten-day shutdown...