Word: headon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Combating Hysteria. Over the years, the Duck has learned to clamp those teeth on its enemies and live to bite an other day. Its secret is circuitous attack; it never charges an opponent headon. Stories begin disarmingly: "We of course deny ... It would be false to say . . ." Then they deliver what they are denying in spectacular detail. Thus the Duck gets away with printing stories no other paper dares touch. Once a Deputy not beloved by the Duck sent the paper a letter full of gamy information about government officials. What to do? The Duck solved the problem by running...
...truck, thundering along at 60 m.p.h., and towing another truck behind it on a steel cable. Either the brakes had failed or the drivers had lost control. The people shrieked in horror as they realized that the trucks were not stopping. The first truck hit the crowd headon. It surged a full 40 yds., rising like a motorboat over successive waves of humanity until the friction of broken bodies and torn limbs slowed and stopped it. The second truck, veering to one side and running a parallel course, also rammed into a mass of people. The tow cable between...
...suspects that Bell may be charging too much for some services, too little for others. With its usual sympathy for Bell's smaller competitors, the Commission has been aroused by a complaint from Western Union that Bell is undercharging for services in which the two companies clash headon. A.T. &T. earns only 1.4% on the private-line telegraph service and 4.7% on the private-line telephone service that it sells to business in competition with Western Union, but gets a return of 10% on interstate telephone services which it monopolizes. The FCC will also investigate whether A.T.&T. pays...
...Doreen Collins, a pleasant-faced divorcee who seeks $400,000 in compensatory damages for a grisly accident in 1962 when she was driving her five children and her new fiance on a camping trip in a 1960 Corvair. Suddenly swinging out of control, the car hit a truck headon, killing one child and the fiance. U.S. Racing Driver Paul O'Shea has taken the stand to back the Collins claim that the Corvair was unsafe. British Racing Driver Stirling Moss has testified that it was safe. The war of experts may well leave judge and jury unsure of just...
...pray for the other fellow. South High Coach Frank ("Doc") Wargo remembers one encounter against Steubenville High, an Ohio Valley team made up mostly of miners' sons. "Ara was tough. But Steubenville had a tough fullback too. On the first play from scrimmage, the two of them met headon, and you could hear the helmets crash. Both boys went down. After a few seconds, Ara jumped up. They carried their fullback...