Word: rebuilders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tornado ten years ago swept through Flint, Mich., and tore up the town. Afterward, hundreds of people came from miles around to pitch in and help rebuild. Up walked an old geezer wearing a carpenter's apron and carrying his own hammer and nails. When he tried to climb a ladder to help nail roofing, a foreman shooed him away. The would-be carpenter was furious. "They think I'm too old!" he grumped. "That's all nonsense. I can outwork half these guys, and I'm as handy with a hammer as the next...
...annual Fly-In Drive-In brought 69 planes from Wisconsin and Illinois. The HamiltonMount Hope Airport in Ontario was the gathering place for the third annual fly-in of the local branch of the Experimental Aircraft Association-some 15,000 people (in 15 countries) who like to build, or rebuild, their own planes. Economy is, of course, one attraction for the do-it-yourselfers; a two-place plane can be built for about $2,-500 (plus 1,500 hours or so), compared with some $5,500 and up for a factory-built plane. But the main appeal...
...mainstays of West Germany's postwar "economic miracle" was its skilled and disciplined workers, who willingly accepted low wages while producing first-class products that won quick acceptance on the world market. In the rush to rebuild the war-ravaged nation, both management and workers proudly summed up their common attitude, Deutsche streiken nicht-Germans don't strike. But Germans now do, and last week West Germany was in the grips of its severest labor crisis since the depression of the early '30s. The strike put 400,000 workers in the southwest state of Württemberg...
...surgeons of old had some success in using part of a man's own arm to rebuild a nose or ear, but as early as 1597, Gasparo Tagliacozzi of Bologna wrote with great insight that "the singular character of the individual entirely dissuades us from attempting this work in another person, for such is the force and power of individuality." Three centuries later, Charles Claude Guthrie and Alexis Carrel learned the wisdom of this judgment. With great virtuosity, they proved that organ grafts between animals were surgically possible. Guthrie even succeeded in grafting a second head onto...
Boston's transit systems, though already extensive, might still benefit from the Williams Bill. The MTA, currently operating with a heavy deficit, could quality for federal loans or grants to rebuild the Charlestown El and extend it to Medford and Malden. Builders of the proposed South Shore monorail might also borrow or be given federal money...