Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parents are also taking a much more critical look at toys that are overpriced, overpromoted, easy to break and hard to repair. In consequence, this is the year of the staples: old-fashioned toys that are not encumbered with frills and are likely to endure. "It is no longer possible to sell parents toys that will hold the child's attention for a very brief time," says the sales manager of a big Midwestern toy company. "Any toy that is to be popular must draw the child back to it again and again...
...lectures to mixed groups of Harvard and Radcliffe students with "Good morning, gentlemen." Activists at the University of Oregon are trying to make departments change the symbolically objectionable titles of courses like "Man and His Environment." to "The Human Environment." Stanford women are taking non-credit courses in car repair, and liberationists at Berkeley have organized informal classes in karate. The result, according to one Berkeley woman, is that "men here are a little less likely now to try something with a woman." Fifteen members of the Women's Activist Movement at Wisconsin last week marched into the university...
Helpful Competitors. Sales were spurred by a buyer protection plan that the company introduced three months ago, covering all 1972 passenger cars for up to one year or 12,000 miles. American will have its dealers repair any factory defect at no cost to the owner. American also attracted buyers by refunding the federal excise tax, even though Congress has not yet repealed the levy. To get into the rapidly expanding recreation market, American two years ago bought Jeep Corp.; Jeep sales in the U.S. in fiscal 1971 increased by 6,573 units...
...over end through the air: the roof of the officers' club went piecemeal. The house of Major General Frederick J. Kroesen, the division commander, simply blew apart. In the confusion of crumbling buildings and hangars, one man died, eleven were injured and 33 helicopters were damaged beyond repair. In all, Hester wreaked more havoc on the base in 24 hours than the Viet Cong or the North Vietnamese army could have done in six months. It was a sadly appropriate sendoff. Last week Kroesen pulled the lanyard on an artillery piece and officially fired the last round...
...reaction to Attica has been punitive. The state is planning to spend $4 million for repair of the prison and another $3 million for a modernization program that will include an expanded library and gymnasium as well as a shower for each cell block-a particular gripe of prisoners who normally are allowed to bathe only once a week. Governor Nelson Rockefeller asked five judges of the state court of appeals to appoint a commission to investigate all aspects of the rebellion. Last week the judges named a diverse nine-man commission to be headed by Robert B. McKay, Dean...