Word: rear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chief of Staff Itzhak Rabin, even though he has no garage, and for wounding Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last March, who was actually hurt in an archeological cave-in. After Israel's independence day parade last May, El Fatah crowed that "a suicide force managed to reach the rear of the parade and shell it with rockets and mortars. Our forces destroyed a number of tanks that were seen to go up in flames." This remarkable event was entirely invisible to Israelis and foreign dignitaries watching the parade. When a $1,000,000 fire damaged Tel Aviv...
...subcommittee found that mechanics "beat the book" up to 75% of the time. One flat-rate manual, for example, puts the time for replacing rear springs on a 1965 Chevy II at 2 hr. 36 min., though the work often takes less than 2 hr. Some mechanics, of course, are skillful enough to finish the job that fast. Others beat the book only by doing the work sloppily...
...model buyers tend to go to extremes in their choices. Luxury cars and economy compacts are both selling well, proving Detroit's contention that there are two ways for the market to grow. The fastest-rising car is Pontiac's Grand Prix, which has an electric rear-window defroster and the longest hood in the industry and retails for $3,777 without extras. Pontiac sold 24,874 of them in October and November, more than during all of the 1968 model year...
With last year's top three Alpine stars temporarily incapacitated, sophomore sensations Alan Watson and Jay O'Rear are expected to fill the gap. Both rank "among the top slalom skiers in the country," according to Harvard coach Dick Friedman...
...final SDS resolution did not call for the disruption of the meeting, however, but stated that students would sit in the rear of the Faculty session, to be held at 3 p.m. in Paine Hall, and try to participate in the discussion...