Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the theater also. I don't mean by that that they should always be old musicals. But I think this musical that they call escapist-I don't look at it that way. I think that after a long day, most of us need a lift in the evening. I don't mean by that that sometimes I don't want to go to see a very serious play or something of that sort." Perhaps Nixon's minutely elaborate, even Oriental effort to avoid giving displeasure was rehearsal for his trip to Peking...
...passengers. Jeffre, a girl I meet, has been waiting six days so far for a hop to Europe. "I would never have believed I'd stay so long," she says, "but everyone here has been so nice." I'm luckier: on the fourth day, I get a lift west out of Butler (though other rides were offered to Boston, Ottawa, Wilmington and Pittsburgh...
...Chicago's Midway Airport by taxi. Late in the afternoon, two pilots for the Husky Oil Co., of Cody, Wyo., suggest that I ask their boss, Chairman of the Board Glenn Nielson, for a lift to Cody. Nielson is slightly taken aback but finally agrees, and we have tea and cookies aboard his jet Sabreliner on the way to Cody. Nielson immediately sends me off to a rodeo. A nice...
...electronics engineer with no previous TV experience, Fendell faced his toughest challenge at the end of the lunar visit. Left behind on the moon along with the rover, the remotecontrolled camera was scheduled to give the world its first pictures of a lunar lift-off taken from the moon's surface. Because of the nagging time lags, Fendell could not afford to look at the TV monitor himself. He had to go completely by the clock. At exactly T-minus-zero, Fendell had to begin tilting the camera upward. Thus, by the time his command reached the moon...
...Bidwell's biggest victories has been to lift the spirit of his dealers. A Lincoln-Mercury dealer who sells one Mark III can now earn about as much money as a Ford dealer makes on twelve Pintos. Not surprisingly, though the number of U.S. auto dealerships is diminishing, Lincoln-Mercury's organization is growing. Bidwell himself signed up 47 new dealers in the past year or so. Says he: "You can't bull the public about cars. All the pizazz in the world can't hide an ineffective dealer organization or a poor product." Bidwell obviously...