Word: retooling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apostles of self-renewal often go back to school to retool their skills. At 43, Los Angeles Aerospace Engineer Leon Elder wants a master's degree in management; last spring he budgeted $12,000 a year in savings to support his family, quit his job and enrolled full time at U.C.L.A. Elder happily matches report cards with his children ("A great way to bridge the generation gap"), foresees a higher-paid business future-or he may teach...
...Pierce at one seminar. "Martin Luther? He was three sheets to the wind on German beer a good part of the time. John Wesley? You'd be sexually frustrated if you had a wife like his." Religious irreverence, insists the institute's dean, Joseph Mathews, helps "retool the minds of clergymen" to secular realities...
Time for Tooling. The prime complaint concerns the "lead time" necessary for making major changes. Unaccustomed to U.S.-style annual model changeovers, Europeans retool only every three or four years, sometimes let models run for ten years or more. "A change in models just to fulfill the annual change in safety standards," says a spokesman for Germany's Porsche, "would lead to bankruptcy." Ron P. Hickman, technical director of Britain's little Lotus Cars Ltd., says that "some items would take more like two years to introduce...
...pitifully inadequate and misdirected" rearguard action that is bound to fail because it treats the symptoms rather than the causes of distress. Brooke advocates "an all-out, unqualified massive attack on the conditions which doom many Americans." He would increase relief payments, expand unemployment and minimum-wage coverage, "retool our total approach to education," and seriously consider a guaranteed annual wage at Government expense. He would even outdo Lady Bird with a "massive clean-up-and-beautify-America program...
...runway with 13,500 lbs. of steel beams -twice the safe maximum load-blowing all three tires. The authors, both U.S. Air Force officers, have also overloaded their favorite plane with a lot of World War II heroics. But their love is palpable-the book itself is a retool job on an earlier book published in 1959-and the DC-3's legend is durable enough to warrant it. One Air Force model, having crash-landed on an ice island off Alaska five years ago, still stands there, a monument on a 30-foot pedestal...