Word: markings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France's first hydrogen bomb explod ed last week over the Fangataufa atoll in the South Pacific, forming a huge ex clamation mark to punctuate the dif ficulties of nonproliferation...
...fierce as is his utter disregard for any outsider. Makonde tribesmen still slit their cheeks to identify themselves to the world, but it is unnecessary surgery. So inseparable are the images of a man and his tribe in Africa that it is as if he carried an invisible mark on his skin...
...other end of Biafra's strategic cable hookup is in the Geneva office of Mark-press, a public relations firm owned by American Adman H. William Bernhardt. Since January, Mark-press has literally waged Biafra's war in press releases ?more than 250 of them. They are crammed with news of impending arms deliveries that is designed to embarrass European governments and with stark warnings about starvation. The firm has arranged air passage into Biafra for more than 70 newsmen from every West European nation and transmitted eyewitness reports to their publications...
...Sorensen, 86, Henry Ford's production chief from 1919 to 1944; after a long illness; in Bethesda, Md. Impatient, often tyrannical, "Cast-Iron Charlie" devised the moving assembly line, which revolutionized the auto industry and pushed the output of Ford's flivvers past the 30 million mark by the early 1940s. In World War II, Sorensen applied the same principle to aircraft plants which turned out four-engine B-24 bombers at the rate of one every three hours...
...Figuring that the battle was over, the Big Three made the mistake of allowing their compacts to grow in both size and price. The result has been a new upsurge in the popularity of imports, which grabbed 9.4% of U.S. sales in 1967 and are back over the 10% mark this year...