Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast majority of Los Angeles' citizens, of course, do not live on any such grand scale, but most of them still have easy access to what Los Angeles offers: natural beauty, climate, the comfort and pleasant living of a city filled with color, palms and tropical breezes. Hurdling space in its voracious lust for land, defying time in its blinding bursts of change, Los Angeles nonetheless maintains an easy, vacation-like atmosphere that is foreign to the East. When Lincoln Steffens, a native Californian, visited the Soviet Union in 1917, he exclaimed: "I have seen the future...
...intelligence to years, fires them with an ample lift. Last week at the N.A.R. meet, experts from NASA, the Army and the Air Force were recruited to judge such sophisticated craft as a model Gemini-Titan constructed (in a total of 300 man-hours) on a 1-to-48 scale, complete with a two-man capsule. Sixteen-year-old Albert Kirchner of Bethpage, N.Y., woomphed off a three-stage Little Joe II-Apollo test vehicle that cost him 200 hours of labor. A few pioneers are even sending aloft mice and grasshoppers, which successfully parachute back to earth...
When housewives grumble, politicians tremble. Thus the Federal Trade Com mission has launched a full-scale investigation into milk and bread price increases. A House subcommittee has held hearings about bread costs. In New York City, the city council has undertaken an all-out probe of food prices; and State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz has filed suit seeking a court injunction against further milk price hikes. In Pennsylvania, where dairymen recently posted a 2?-per-qt. milk price raise, Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer, the G.O.P. candidate for Governor, persuaded them to roll back to the old 28?-qt. line...
...partners spent 20 years or more honorably paying off their debts from the Kreuger fiasco, the reorganized firm could never rustle up enough cash for the computers and research staffs to compete with such giants as Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith-or, on a somewhat smaller scale, Hayden, Stone. Says Hayden, Stone Chairman Alfred J. Coyle, they "couldn't make the costly effort we make in research-the only way a firm can supply the services customers want...
...distinct feature of the new liability trend is to "shift the risk" to the defendant who can insure against it on the largest scale. Detroit auto engineers would probably not be held personally liable, for example, since the theory is that big auto companies can take out insurance against defective design and spread the cost among hundreds of thousands of purchasers, each of whom is charged a few more cents for his new car. In addition, today's wise manufacturer ignores his own heady advertising and urges customers to return defective products for repairs, thus giving him the information...