Word: geared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Keep Up? Some small manufacturers seek to survive and prosper by diversifying. In Detroit, United Platers has begun to retail its own line of chrome-plated auto wheels, and hopes for a free lift on advertising from Buick, which will offer similar wheels (made by United) as optional gear on its '64 models. Other firms are narrowing their lines, with the intent of making fewer products better than anyone else. Beau-tee-Fit Co. of Los Angeles retrenched from manufacturing a full line of brassieres to only top-quality models, lately has begun to specialize in nursing bras. Detroit...
...week for talks with Ayub, he will make clear U.S. concern over Pakistan's dalliance with Red China. Among other things, Ball will object to American-made jets' flying into Communist China and the possibility of the Pakistan Airlines' stocking U.S.-made spare parts and maintenance gear in Shanghai and Canton. Until Pakistan demonstrates its "good faith" to Washington by finding a way out of the air agreement, the U.S. will withhold a $4,300,000 loan to modernize Dacca airport. In his own way, Troubleshooter Ball will have to rephrase the warning of a Western diplomat...
...Rings Away. As SAC commander, Power is never more than six rings away from telephones that can put him in immediate touch with the President, the Joint Chiefs, and a global network of 75 SAC bases. Even his golf cart is rigged with communications gear. As commander of the 200-man, multiservice Joint Strategic Targeting Planning Staff, he is also charged with assigning targets to every bomber and guided missile in the U.S. arsenal...
...find enemy weapons. "Decoy discrimination" is a system that keeps the ABM from exploding harmlessly on contact with phony missiles and other chaff shot along with an attack. "Blackout effects" are caused by nuclear explosions of ABMs attacking an enemy bombardment, disrupt sound and electronic impulses in the gear that is tracking the incoming missiles...
...maximum of three people that most sailboats are ideally designed to carry. It rode far up in the water to decrease splashing while under way, had a peculiarly high boom to clear landlubbers' heads when it swung around too fast, included such gadgets as shelves for feminine gear. An ugly duckling it was, but at $2,000 apiece O'Day got so many orders for Day Sailers that it took his tiny plant nearly three years to catch...