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...less than 50 years. It is believed that defective shafts were accidentally shipped to the Vega assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, instead of being placed in specially colored orange chutes reserved for faulty parts. At the Buffalo plant the machine operators work under a "pride of workmanship" program and inspect the axles themselves. Then other inspectors double-check. Since G.M. discovered the problem in early May, the axles have been inspected a third time at the Vega assembly plant...
...replacing a taillight on his state-owned Buick Le Sabre, he made the extravagant charge that General Motors designers made cars hard to repair in order to drive up repair costs for the benefit of dealers and parts manufacturers. With that, G.M. sent two executives to Harrisburg to inspect Denenberg's car. (They claimed it had suffered a "rear impact" that complicated repair of the taillight.) Denenberg has called the present system for paying auto-accident claims "a legalized racket," noting that the Pennsylvania state lottery pays out to winners more of the money it collects...
...recent (1969-70) captain of St. Andrews' Royal and Ancient Golf Club. Nevertheless, for protection or convenience, Whitelaw customarily uses the R.A.F. for flights between Belfast and London and weekends with his wife Cecilia. He also uses military helicopters for flights around Ireland to visit troops or inspect trouble areas...
...balance, it seems wiser to have an FBI under direct Administration control. Certain safeguards could prevent political abuses. The Omnibus Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 already stipulates that new directors of the FBI must be confirmed by the Senate, thus providing one review. But Congress should inspect the bureau's budget and operations on a continuing basis, instead of unquestioningly rubber-stamping appropriations as it did in Hoover's time. Certainly the director's term should be fixed by law in order to prevent another man from establishing a life tenure...
...because it seemed that everything I knew was in that notebook, and I had lost it." Hughes ordered Dietrich to retrace every step that he, Hughes, had taken on the day of the loss, to get down on his hands and knees every 25 yards along the route to inspect the ground. Adds Hughes: "He sent me the cleaning bill for his trousers, the cheap bastard...