Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constituents or at his red-brick home in Hampstead Garden Suburb, Wilson is affable, easygoing and well-liked. His wife Mary, the daughter of a Baptist minister, writes poetry and is active in her local church; his two sons, Robin. 19, and Giles, 14, litter the house with sports gear and mackintoshes. But in the House of Com mons, the reaction to Wilson is generally one of uneasy suspicion, and he is frequently accused of being "slippery." As the Economist put it last week, "On the big things-defense, the American alliance, East-West, the need to give Labor...
...Huston type, rich enough to dig a two or three hundred million dollar fur-lined funk hole under his Connecticut Shangrila. There is his nice ginny wife. And (what larks in the ark in this subterranean Ararat) his mistress. A Jewish nuclear physicist clever enough to work the survival gear and brave enough to make like a space comic hero in an asbestos suit along the hot galleries of the shelter. The tycoon's blonde daughter. The tycoon's colored butler-old-fashioned enough to do a bit of praying. The butler's honey-colored sexpot daughter...
Spectacular Outfit. Every sort of blizzard gear was worn, but the most spectacular outfit was sported by Diana Wood, 35, pretty wife of Britain's Minister of Power Richard Wood. When an outbreak of power failures brought a storm of complaints to the Power Ministry, Mrs. Wood helped raise at least some temperatures by posing for the Daily Mail in her cold-weather costume: a turtleneck sweater, fishnet stockings, and skintight, black woolen knee-length panties...
...Pontiac hit an oil slick and leaped a 3½-ft.-high guardrail. Jim Paschal's Plymouth spun out of control, turned four somersaults and plunged over a steep embankment. Incredibly, neither driver was badly hurt. Streaking through Riverside's tricky S-curves in third gear at more than 100 m.p.h., Gurney grabbed the lead on the 43rd lap. Over the next 142 laps, until he finally flashed across the finish line in front, Gurney relinquished his lead only three times-each time for a pit stop. His winning margin for the six-hour race: 36 sec. Waving...
...threats of strikes, carry less wallop than they used to as industry relies more and more on machines and finds itself overloaded with productive capacity. Strikers recently stayed out for six months at the big Climax Molybdenum mine in Colorado; but the company, using supervisory help and semiautomated gear, was able to produce up to 65% capacity. Even the worst strike of recent times made little dent in the company ledgers; in 1959, the year of the 116-day steel strike, steelmakers earned 7% more than...