Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some invisible flag had been raised at headquarters. There are the same old slogans, press releases and speeches about honoring commitments and about other nations losing faith in the United States if we do not plunge on. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger last week was puffing his pipe and weighing "the dry season," against "the wet season." His computers were spinning out statistics about the percentages of the land and the people controlled by the Communists. General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dispatched Major General John R.D. Cleland on a new fact-finding mission...
...bench, she threatened to give a traffic policeman "a vasectomy with a .38." To round out her reputation, she sometimes heard cases with her pet Chihuahua in her lap, and for a while had a toy canary that punctuated lawyers' arguments with mechanical peeps. Few attorneys dared to pipe back publicly. So for twelve years Judge Cannon presided as a choice gossip topic...
Variety in view and routine is a relaxant. Ford now has an informal office just beyond the Oval Office. Unlike Nixon, this President frequently takes off his coat and works in shirtsleeves. His pipe is handy and in constant use. White House Physician William Lukash believes such little things reduce tedium and tension. Ford likes movies at night but sometimes flakes out. He fell asleep during a screening of The Sugarland Express but stayed the distance for Chinatown. There is an effort to introduce soothing potions of humor in the daily rituals. When Hollywood's gorgeous Candice Bergen...
Loewy's emphasis on design's commercial and industrial responsibilities is shared by Roger Tallon, 45, whose projects have included the striking new Mexico City subway system. "For me, design is a pipe that does not leak, a bottle top that closes and does not break," says Tallon. "If a designer is not considered an engineer, then this profession has no future." Among his current contracts are designs for new subways in Paris and digital watches...
Bumper Battle. The industry's credibility has not always been high when it comes to complaints about environmental controls. For example, Detroit long opposed use of the emission-reducing catalytic converter, a device fixed to the exhaust pipe underneath the car. These converters are installed in the 1975 models, and GM, for one, praises their virtues. With the converter, engines can be tuned up to give top fuel efficiency instead of being wastefully geared down to reduce emissions, as they had been for several years. The result, according to tests made by the Environmental Protection Agency: the new cars...