Word: rodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just as bullish about his prospects is Rod D. Grimm, 25, a Berkeley graduate student in marketing who has al ready served two years in Viet Nam with the Green Berets. Grimm, who receives his master of business administration degree this summer, has been interviewed by 15 companies. He has gotten eight "seconds"-invitations to inspect company facilities and talk seriously about work and salary-and expects several more before he is finally forced to make a choice...
...Christie would be the picture's saving grace if she had more to do or say in it. Geraldine Chaplin might as well start her career all over again; certainly no one should hold this first role against her. Actually, Zhivago's only well-thought-out role falls to Rod Steiger, who makes the most of it and--by way of reward--gets to take Julie Christie off into Siberia...
...Rod & Snorkels. Another architect who is fed up with faceless, anonymous architecture that conceals function is John Johansen, 49, whose Goddard Library at Clark University in Massachusetts looks more like a photocopying machine than a glassy showcase for books. Johansen believes that architects, like all thinking people today, yearn to pierce through established façades: "Nothing goes unquestioned today; nothing is taken at its face value...
...with great interest that I read your article concerning Captain Ronald Rod and his efforts to help the people of Due Pho [Dec. 24]. As his replacement, I have become all too painfully aware that a program such as the one he started is desperately .needed. It is my hope that civic organizations everywhere will take an interest in helping people in places like Due Pho. They can use all the help they can get. JAMES V. KIMSEY Captain, U.S.A. Senior Adviser Due Pho District Viet...
...column is rigidly clamped at two points by collar-shaped steel brackets. In the G.M. design, the brackets are lined with plastic, which gives way on impact. Thus freed, the steering column collapses: one section of the column, made of steel mesh, crumples, while the gearshift tube and steering rod are telescoped, thereby shortening the column's length a total of 81 in. Presumably the auto companies will pass the added cost of the new safety features-about $15 for the column and $5 for the brakes-directly on to the customers...