Word: gaskets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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story. But it was not until the Journal ran a dope story on the new 1955 auto models four weeks ago (TIME, June 7) that G.M. blew a gasket. In Detroit new models are always a closely guarded secret, revealed to newsmen only on an off-the-record basis until the companies are ready to put them on sale. But the Journal refused to hear "off-the-record" information. It got its story from the tool-and-die shops of Detroit and from competing auto companies, pieced together a rough-and not always accurate-picture of what the new cars...
...into the last hour, only 28 cars were left. A Cunningham-owned Ferrari was out with a bad oil line; Cunningham's Cunningham drove up for a pit stop, and when water was poured into the radiator, it came out the exhaust pipe: the engine had blown a gasket. Cunningham looked at the steaming water from the exhaust and walked away, laughing. ("What else can you do but laugh when that happens...
...miscarriages of critical justice. "I try to keep in mind, even when viewing the dreariest efforts," says the Journal-American's McClain, "that the people involved are not criminals." There are times when the critics have been dead wrong, he adds, "but even an I.B.M. machine blows a gasket now and then...
...Force, ought to have their own general on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was not the first of such letters on the subject. There had been scores of others, not to mention telegrams and even some telephone calls. This was the limit. Mr. Truman popped a gasket...