Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scared, lazy, and unwilling to take their place in society. With all there is to be done in this badly troubled world, why must there be such waste of talent? One can only hope that the novelty will wear off and that these nuts will get back into the scheme of things. To live in today's world has to be the most exciting, the most challenging and the most fun. Those poor kids don't know what they are missing...
Although it is too soon to say flatly that the new plan will end all of Cambridge's traffic difficulties, it is clear that there has been an improvement. As Cambridge drivers become more familiar with the new pattern, the advantages of Rudolph's scheme will probably become even more apparent...
...With reference to "Auto Racing" [July 7]: Mr. Foyt should remain with those bulky old Offenhausers in the interest of saving the public from other crybaby winners. The U.S.A.C. shows a great lack of imagination if it cannot formulate a scheme whereby the turbine cars, an attempt at progress, can be worked into competition with the now almost obsolete Lotus-Fords. Nothing is so boring as to watch a race between tortoises when there is a hare waiting in the wings to tear up the track...
Today, auto dealers themselves are sponsoring consorcios, and even manufacturers are getting into the act. Months ago, Max Pearce, General Managing Director of Willys-Overland do Brazil, began to notice the spectacular successes some local dealers were having with consorcios, wondered if the scheme might not be worth trying on a nationwide basis. Last month the company kicked off a consorcio campaign expected to generate communal purchases of 2,500 cars a month by 1969. Skeptical at first, João Lopes Coelho, director of a dealer-run lottery operation in Rio de Janeiro, lauds the whole idea as "typical...
Each mate discovers that freedom is, as the existentialists claim, a dreadful burden. Van Dyke is taken in tow by a fellow survivor of a divorce (Jason Robards), who hobbles around with a bad knee he is too alimony-poor to fix. In a devious scheme, Robards proposes to marry off Van Dyke to his ex-wife and get a leg to stand on. In return, the two find a candidate to marry Debbie: Van Johnson, a chipmonkish used-car salesman. Up to here, the infighting and jabbing are worth watching. But in the final rounds, Writer Norman Lear...