Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon was in New York, watching and waiting. In last week's Nebraska primary, where Goldwater's name was the only one on the ballot, Nixon polled a tidy 31.4% write-in vote. Nixon boosters got a psychological lift out of that, but Goldwater drew 49.5% of the vote and five of the six state delegates elected. Later, Nixon called his campaign forces in Oregon to find out how things were going, then took off on a weekend vacation...
...models for which he is responsible. The big change: the Ambassador has been redesigned and enlarged to compete with the Big Three's intermediate-class cars, will be available in eight models ranging from a station wagon to a convertible. Abernethy has also given the Classic a face-lift and tooled up for a fastback sports car that will probably be called either the Marlin or Sceptre. The handsome American compact will continue almost unchanged. Abernethy has no intention of abandoning the image of making "sensible cars" that Romney created for the company, but, being a sensible type himself...
...master does little talking, even when teaching a new dance. "Now we shall work with arms," he will say, helpfully turning his own into overcooked asparagus. The dancers copy. "Isn't it selfish of you," he will ask, "to expect 3,000 people to sit and watch you lift your leg if you're not going to do it beautifully...
...first of the corporate jets - Lockheed's $1,450,000 JetStar - has experienced such a sudden sales lift that used JetStars now sell for $150,000 more than new ones because of a 15-month waiting period for delivery; after long-suffering patience, National Steel fort night ago received the 29th JetStar sold by Lockheed to corporate customers. North American Aviation, whose $795,000 Sabreliner followed the JetStar into the market, has sold 25 of the twin-jet planes in the past twelve months. The jet that has attracted the most orders-60 so far-will not even start...
Provincial Grocer. Vladimir Ulyanov sat on the stove in a spare kitchen in his grandfather's house and read Das Kapital, convinced that here at last was the weapon to bring down the state and lift oppression from the backs of the people. Among his first disciples were his younger brother and his sisters. While he worked for a law degree and wherever he went, Vladimir founded or joined Marxist study groups, and he traveled abroad to meet the exiled leaders of the outlawed Marxist party, then still known as the Social Democrats...