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Regardless of undercoating or other protective measures taken by their owners, some Fiat cars rusted rapidly on U.S. roads in the 1970s. That problem and others led wags to proclaim Fiat an acronym for Fix It Again Tony. Partly as a result, sales dropped from a high of 100,511 cars in 1975 to last year's 14,113. Last week Fiat announced that it was pulling out of the American market...
...They proclaim the sun's highest and lowest point in the midday sky, on about June 22 and Dec. 22, (the summer and winter solstices), and signal the advent of a new season. Modern calendars ensure that there are no mistakes. But how did the pre-Columbian peoples foretell the seasons? Apparently, says a husband-and-wife scientific team, the Southwest's ancient inhabitants were skilled solar observers who used rock carvings to keep track of the sun's progress across the heavens...
Sweeping the debate over conversions aside, the Rev. Willie Cilliers, secretary for missions of the black Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, argues that the true role of the missionary is simply to reach out to the poor, in imitation of Jesus. Says he: "We have a message to proclaim: that from a Christian perspective it is the weak in society who have the first priority. That is what the Christian message is about-reaching out to the weak...
...years with any care, most commentary treats the SDS leadership with a degree of respect verging on reverence. "Ideological contamination," the authors of Roots call it, and they argue a convincing case for the generalization. The most-often cited secondary sources on SDS were written by people who openly proclaim their sympathy for, if not actual participation in, some aspect of the New Left. Kirkpatrick Sale, author of the meticulously detailed SDS, describes the group's charter members as "a remarkable group of people... committed, energetic, perceptive, political, warm... charismatic, articulate, and (many) good-looking...
Central Asia and Siberia, and was lucky enough to be able to proclaim a bumper wheat crop for 1956. In 1960 he succeeded Marshal Kliment Voroshilov in the post of Soviet President. Brezhnev took advantage of the undemanding job to travel widely outside the U.S.S.R. as a spokesman for Khrushchev's foreign policy. In 1964 he was a member of the conspiracy against his former mentor that forced Khrushchev into retirement. Brezhnev's reward: the high-ranking post of First Secretary of the Communist Party. In 1966 Brezhnev assumed the grander title of General Secretary that had been...