Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When British police last month began making curbside inspections with a "Breathalyser" that measures the alcohol imbibed by a motorist, cries of indignation rang out across the country. Last week the early results of the war on drinking drivers were in, and they were something to lift a glass to-at home. Accident rates on the road have fallen almost everywhere since B-day, in some places as much as 50%, and indications are that the official figures to be released early in December will bear out Transport Minister Barbara Castle's claim that the law will save...
...reporters sitting in an open grandstand. In the launch-control center, as plaster dust from the ceiling fell around him and technicians wildly cheered, Wernher von Braun breathed, "Go, baby, go. " And in a portable CBS News studio, Commentator Walter Cronkite pressed his hands against a trembling plate-glass window and, in a voice distorted by excitement and vibration, shouted to a nationwide TV audience: "Oh, my God, our building is shaking . . . part of the roof has come in here...
...smooth-talking senior vice president from Litton Industries with an accounting background and a Harvard Business School degree. Simon makes no bones about the reason for the change: he wants to expand his empire of subsidiaries and affiliates, which already includes McCall Corp., Hunt-Wesson Foods, Inc., Knox Glass Inc., Canada Dry Corp. and Crucible Steel Corp. of America. Says he: "Fabian has been largely an operating chief and has been damned good at that. But Hunt is getting more acquisition-minded, so we need a man whose primary orientation is finance...
...slight--involved George C. Scott (Ben). Scott displayed an almost chivalrous attitude toward his sister. Though he wouldn't notice a simpering girl, the smile of a dragon eager to rip his guts out fascinated him. That was perfect. So was the way he dipped cigars in his wine glass and wound a noisy watch during the musical interlude. But Scott abandoned his role occasionally to play standup comedian. He would execute a clever turn but spoil it by acting as if he thought it was pretty clever...
...WORLD'S LARGEST STORE GREETS A NEW NEIGHBOR ran the full-page newspaper ad. Thus the daddy of department stores said hello last week to the daddy of discounters. With the opening of a new nine-story, marble-and-glass store directly across from Macy's, E. J. Korvette, Inc., has moved into Manhattan's bustling Herald Square-34th Street retailers' lair, which also houses such formidable outfits as Gimbel Bros., B. Altman and Ohrbach...