Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replied that accidents are not part of the normal and foreseeable use of the car. Judge John Fullam found that defense too narrow. While automakers cannot be required to build a "crashproof" car, he said, "passengers must be provided with a reasonably safe container within which to make the journey...
Wilson's woes are largely self-made. His surprising clumsiness in foreign affairs, ranging from the preposterous invasion of tiny Anguilla in the Caribbean to his own ineffectual journey to Nigeria, where he tried vainly to serve as statesman-broker between rebel Biafra and the Nigerian federal government, has made Britain a figure of world ridicule. At home, Wilson is locked in a particularly bitter battle with British unions, which are incensed by his union-reform bills-and especially at the bill's penal provisions against wildcat strikers...
...circumstances it is difficult for us to agree either with the description of a "faltering" faculty, or with the statement that "the faculty under pressure from black students broke with one of the basic traditional principles." Rather, it seems to us that we have made considerable progress on a journey on which we had already embarked before the events of April 9 and 10. The new program for our black students may well become a model, of relevance both the scholarship in a new field and to the peaceful evolution of democratic institutions in the United States...
...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-10 p.m.). Ronald Ribman's prizewinning drama The Journey of the Fifth Horse stars Dustin Hoffman in his Obie-winning role as a publisher's reader whose life begins to parallel that of a character in a novel he is reading. Repeat...
KITTY HAWK TO PARIS: THE HEROIC YEARS (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). A documentary on the daring young men who manned those revolutionary new flying machines during the 24 years between the Wright brothers and Lindbergh's historic journey...