Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first round of 4.9 million certified letters asking owners to bring in their cars will cost $1.7 million. Much of all this might have been avoided had the company listened to Edward A. Gregory back in 1965. Gregory, then an inspector at the Fisher Body St. Louis plant, filed four reports that poor sealing in the rear-quarter panel of Chevrolet car bodies permitted seepage of exhaust fumes...
...first, he was brushed aside, then transferred to another part of the plant. Gregory began correspondence with Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader, who presently has a $26 million invasion of privacy suit against G.M. for harassment during his famed auto-safety investigation. Nader looked into Gregory's charges and spelled them out in a press release. As a belated footnote to Gregory's three-year campaign, G.M. last week adopted his suggestions for an improved sealing technique and awarded him a $10,000 prize in Government bonds for his ideas...
...group got off to a good start: Lockheed Aircraft Corp. agreed to lease 6.5 acres and build an aircraft-parts manufacturing plant that will employ 300 persons, including as many hard-core unemployed as possible. Allen promised that the park will also be open to local small businessmen. "What we are doing in Watts," he said, "is what should be done in every ghetto in America...
...words; the Israelis claimed that as many as 80 fedayeen were killed and two Syrian MIG-17s shot down. The Syrians claimed to have downed three Israeli jets, and the fedayeen claimed that the attack had wounded only two guerrillas, while killing five civilians in a nearby washing-machine plant (the Syrians reported 15 dead...
...music is a splendid way to cover the script's sins. A good number of the songs sound the same, but it's a good sound and the repetitions are easy to forgive. Troob seems fascinated with a pattern of slow-lead-in, break into new, snappy meter, plant a long dance between the second and third verse. The best of them are straightforward satires--anemic Junior's self-discovery ("Number One and Only You") and a stay-away-from-sin number at the start of the Second Act ("You Can Be Celibate...