Word: precisionism
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Affectionately dubbed "Oyaji'' ("Pop") by his employees, Honda spends more time in the research lab than he does at his desk, tests most of the new models* himself at the company's Yamato City testing grounds. He sees no limit to the potential sales of his precision...
Every few years, Robert Graves, the bent-nosed Jove of Majorca, lovingly revises the canon of his verse. The present edition retains most of the poems from the 1955 and earlier collections, adds some 50 new ones, and omits ten others that to the author "seemed to go dead." The...
Economics Professor Fanfani answered with classroom precision: "It would be dangerous to believe that the solution of present difficulties can come from unilateral action. The [Western] will to negotiate must not be mistaken for weakness." At some point amidst the amiability and the inability to reach every agreement, Khrushchev broke...
For five days and nights, the jumping, grunting, lifting, leaping and writhing went on. An 80-woman corps from Norway, the youngest among them 50 years old, performed precision calisthenics to the strains of Now Is the Hour. A shorts-clad German woman contingent got a big hand for an...
Block Commandos. The economy of Dresden, as of all of East Germany, has been hard hit by the refugee flow west. A precision mechanic said that eight of 30 workers in his factory section had left in the last three years. The Dresden Communist paper carries a daily appeal to...