Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struck against the General Motors Corporation for 67 days, paralyzing production of Chevrolets, Buicks. Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs, and shifting the Motor City into low gear. That strike was not of record breaking length...
...setback, the defense was frustrated in its efforts to have a mistrial declared. Two FBI agents with an attache case full of electronic gear had been discovered poised over telephone circuits next door to the defense attorneys' conference room. The defense claimed the agents were bugging their lines. Judge Winston Arnow, a tough, conservative Lyndon Johnson appointee, who has shown little patience with either defense or prosecution tactics, ruled last week there had been no bugging. When the Gainesville case goes to the jury it will face a decision not unfamiliar in conspiracy trials: Was the strange plot planned...
...order went out to begin the preparations, the shape of the proposed rescue became clear. Cape Kennedy's Pad 39B would have to be hastily readied for another launch. The Apollo rescue ship would have to be stripped of other gear to accommodate five passengers instead of the usual three and ballasted with 1,000 lbs. of lead to compensate for the resulting shift in the center of gravity. Astronauts Vance Brand and Don Lind, back-up Skylab crewmen, would pilot the craft to a rendezvous with Skylab and probably dock in an emergency port at the side...
...attache case in a ventilation duct in the defense attorney's Tuesday. Upon further investigation, FBI agents Carl Ekblad and Robert Romann were found surrounded by a telephone receiver with alligator clips, a small set of plastic screwdrivers, a battery pack, an output transmitter, several earphones and other electronic gear...
...does. Once he has "unfolded," as the lanky San Diego State junior describes his getaway activity, he seems to accelerate with the speed of a race car suddenly shifted into high gear. At the A.A.U. relays last May in Fresno, Calif., Williams tied the world record (9.1 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash; five weeks later, in Bakersfield, he became the first runner in 13 years to win both the 100 and the 220 in an A.A.U. championship. Last week in Turin, Italy, he swept past the best of Italian competitors to a first-place finish in the 200-meter...