Word: repairing
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Connally is actually a smoother, boardroom version of Lyndon Johnson, more deliberative in style and, of course, lacking the patronage and power that L.B.J. commanded as President. His first mission for Nixon was to try to repair the damage done to Lockheed Aircraft's Tri-Star project when Rolls-Royce, the contractor for the plane's jet engine, announced bankruptcy. Connally discreetly bullied the British into propping up Rolls with funds, then turned to Lockheed. On Connally's advice, Lockheed's chairman of the board, Dan Haughton, traveled the nation organizing financial support from banks...
...Squatting in their refugee camps with little gainful employment, thrown into an urban environment they can hardly understand or cope with, many have lost their grip on their traditions and values. The land will mend, but what of the social fabric? In some places it is already tattered beyond repair, and the longer those millions of refugees stay cooped up in their tin sheds, the more the fabric will unravel...
When planting is over around early June, Erv will take a badly needed fishing trip up to Michigan. The rest of the summer will be spent cleaning barns and attending stock sales; winter will be devoted to classes and machinery repair. There will be regular Saturday night dances ("Lucille and I would rather dance than eat," Erv grins), but mostly Erv's year will be a day-to-day battle just to stay even. Then it will be spring again, and time for planting. It is an exhausting and relentless cycle, but that is the way men like...
...York City. Millionaire George T. Delacorte (Dell Publishing Co.) financed an Alice in Wonderland sculpture for Central Park, then watched vandals assault it. He spent thousands on the mechanical animals that twirl in the park's zoo clock tower-and then much more on crews to repair the almost weekly breakdown of the machinery...
While China's propaganda machine worked to turn Mao into a living deity, the nation returned to work. Millions of Red Guards were sent to labor in remote areas where they could make less trouble. Agriculture was given priority, and thousands of small fertilizer plants, repair shops and power stations were built in the countryside. The result was a significant upsurge in the 1970 grain harvest, claimed to be 240 million tons, as well as in industrial output, which Pe king claims amounts to $90 billion. Some analysts guess that China's economic growth rate reached 10% last...