Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twin-engine Caribou Army transport swooped in for a landing at a dirt airstrip 110 miles northwest of Saigon, General Paul Harkins, 59, U.S. military commander in Viet Nam, noticed a small problem. Hey, wait! Look! Too late. And the plane touched down with its landing gear firmly up and locked. Harkins and all aboard emerged unhurt. But definitely unhappy. "That's one hell of a way to come down," roared the general. "Well sir," explained the pilot helpfully, "I forgot to put the wheels down...
...funds for the party. But "Draft Goldwater" committees are sprouting like winter wheat, should be established in every state by mid-October. Some states already have Goldwater groups clear down to the precinct level, waiting only until Barry formally announces his candidacy-probably in January-to move into high gear...
...often puts off opponents during negotiations by conferring with his associates in Hebrew, likes to voice homey parables. He lives with his wife and three children in a lavish home on Long Island, where his special joys are a pump-powered waterfall and a library that contains more electronic gear than books. Despite the Lerner setback, Riklis last week hoped to raise some money by contracting to sell off one of Rapid-American's divisions for $4,300,000. But Meshulam Riklis is painfully learning that what comes rapidly can also rapidly...
...this was a real grudge match. Ever since World War II, U.S. big-car racing has worn a "members only" sign, dominated by a tight knot of drivers piloting burly 400-h.p. Offenhauser roadsters. But this year the "sports-car crowd"-the road racers and gear shifters-was trying to muscle in with dinky, British-built Lotuses using 375-h.p. Ford V-8 engines...
...English instead of the local language, prices are quoted only in dollars, and English measurements given where the metric system is used. U.S. appliance makers are missing a booming market overseas because they refuse to adjust to the varying electric voltages abroad. Electric turbine makers often do not gear their powerful and complicated products down to the more modest needs of emerging nations. There are, said Hodges, "many cases of just plain incompetent or careless business practices...