Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plays in the field like professionals. The Mets have grown up." Perhaps most significant, they have developed a large measure of team cooperation and team pride. Says Hodges: "My main goal was to change the notion that everything the Mets did was wrong. I wanted them to do things right...
...diverse companies as United Artists, Trans-International Airlines and Budget Rent-a-Car. It needs a new building where it can consolidate all its operations and provide room for anticipated expansion. The location chosen-just across the street from its beautifully restored turn-of-the-century headquarters building and right at the edge of San Francisco's financial district-is most convenient to the company's operations. But many San Franciscans, including city planners and just plain residents, strongly oppose the erection of the building, and the city has been split into pro-and anti-needlers...
...known structures in the world"), and leading businessmen who are worried about the recent flight of major firms to less congested sites on the other side of the Bay. Last week San Francisco's Board of Supervisors removed the last obstacle to construction when it granted Transamerica the right to close off and build upon a short stretch of Merchant Street. Now Transamerica has the ground footage it needs, and construction is scheduled to start late this fall...
...reports of gathering clouds of locusts that posed an even greater threat. From weather satellite pictures of cloud formations, trackers could map wind patterns. Since locusts ride the winds, spray planes knew where to go. Once they had made contact, they dumped their loads of spray through atomizers, one right after the other, until the swarms were stopped. On the ground, pesticide squads struck breeding areas. The winged locusts were turned back, and the young locusts died before they could develop wings. The FAQ thus managed to reduce a possible plague to a minor annoyance...
...right, Bernhard and Hilla pile their assorted cameras and tripods, plus the makings of a picnic, into their rattling Volkswagen bus and head for the slag heaps. When they are not on a long haul to the coal fields of Liège, Belgium, or the grimy Bassin du Nord of France, they ply a favored route leading from Düsseldorf into the heart of the Ruhr, home of Germany's coal and steel industries. Before a visit to Oberhausen recently, Becher had made contact with one of the plant offices, cajoled plant guards with a few cases...