Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn a profit. In heated meetings with the French, the British have lately argued that the Concorde would be woefully outmatched by the planned U.S. plane, which will have up to 35% more speed and 100% more seats. Too much prestige is involved for the British and French to scrap the Concorde, despite rumors that they might, but they have already shelved plans to build a medium-range version...
Elia Kazan put a capsule review of his screenplay in a terse scrap of dialogue. Stavros Topouzoglou, trying to explain his feverish yearning for America, tells his fiancee, "You have to be what I am to understand." To understand the movie intimately you must be Elia Kazan or one of his relatives. America, America is a gigantic home movie, constructed from family stories about migration to the Promised Land. Kazan himself was born in Turkey, and he fervently wants his film to remind us "that we are all immigrants and that we all came here looking for something." The pity...
...executive. Before taking over the division in January, he raised Chrysler's share of U.S. auto exports from 16.2% to 22.3%, increased Dodge truck sales from 40,000 units a year to 74,000 and saved the money-losing Dodge truck operation just as Townsend was ready to scrap it. Buckminster is now busy trying to boost Plymouth from a sad seventh to the No. 3 sales position it once held behind Chevrolet and Ford...
Private Domains. In foreign affairs, Defferre argued for national independence based "on the economic rather than the military level," and hinted that, under favorable conditions, he would scrap De Gaulle's nuclear force de frappe. But above all, Defferre demanded changes in the Gaullist constitution, especially asking that 1) the President's term be shortened from seven to five years so that he can be elected at the same time as the National Assembly, 2) the President's role should be more that of an arbitrator than an arbitrary ruler with sole authority over such "private domains...
...somewhat less public scrap, Rowan took exception to a sentence in a joint communiqué that Johnson was to propose to India's Prime Minister Nehru. Warned Rowan: "It's condescending and Nehru won't like it." Johnson forcefully disagreed. But sure enough, Nehru threw the paper on the floor when he read the offending line. Later, Johnson said to Rowan: "You were right. Just keep getting up when I knock you down." Then in obvious reference to the fact that Rowan is a Negro, Johnson added: "But I guess I needn't tell you that...