Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loaded with U.S. advisers and equipment). At the same time, Hanoi kept the commissioners from inspecting Haiphong Harbor. "The People's Army of [North] Viet Nam," said an ICC report at the time, "expressed its inability, despite its best efforts, to provide a boat with a suitable outboard motor...
Remote Summit. Late last week, the President, Lady Bird and Daughter Luci waited in the darkness at the White House south portico as the Nixons drew up in a big white Continental on loan from the White House motor pool. Inside, Nixon and Johnson talked in the Oval Office for more than an hour and a half; it was their second encounter since Election Day. They discussed everything from housekeeping in the Executive Mansion to Viet Nam, the Middle East, and a possible summit meeting with the Russians before the President leaves office...
...clothes they had shoplifted. In San Francisco, a family of 1 5 - including mother, broth ers, sisters and cousins - swept through a department store and collected hundreds of dollars worth of goods. Detectives who trailed them found that the father was waiting outside in the family car with the motor running...
AUTOMOBILES are costly to buy and to maintain. Although motor-happy Americans are buying more and more of them (see following story), they have reason to cringe when it comes to repairing aged or ailing cars. As Economist William N. Leonard, a professor at Long Island's Hofstra University, told a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee last week: "No matter where you go for auto repairs, you run the risk of a fleecing. The automobile-service business has become a jungle for the consumer...
...Paulo last week. Brazil's sixth national automobile show was in full swing in the city's exhibition hall at Parque Ibirapuera, and auto manufacturers were making the most of their opportunity to trumpet that in one decade Brazil has managed to develop a viable motor industry. As recently as the 1950s, Brazil spent $140 million a year to import autos; last year, because of increased domestic production and higher tariffs, imports amounted to $3,000,000. This year the country's carmakers will turn out 270,000 cars and trucks, show sales of nearly $1 billion...