Word: shakedowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenger's main thrust has been to accuse Tate's administration of being "more interested in patronage and favoritism than in moving the city ahead," of turning the City of Brotherly Love into "Shakedown, U.S.A." When Specter demands that Tate name his campaign contributors-donors who, says Specter, stand to get official favors from Tate-the mayor demurs,. While Specter makes points with this strategy, Tate's arsenal contains a heavy weapon that Specter's lacks: an emotional issue of major impact...
Every once in a while they'll have shakedown inspections at the bases. They'll go through every inch of the barracks. But the old generation does not really know how much of it there is and they don't know what to look for or where to look. So it's pretty easy to get away with. In fact, it's damn easy. When I was a sergeant in Texas, I had a room to myself and we used to have pot parties in my room in the barracks right in the middle of the army base...
...Packer an estimated $675,000-hardly enough to dent his enthusiasm. Last year he spent about $150,000 to have Gretel rebuilt for another try, but that came to nought (TIME, January 27) when a brand new Aussie challenger, Dame Pattie, convincingly trounced Gretel in a series of shakedown races off Sydney. Nothing would do then except to rebuild Gretel yet another time. Back she went to the yard, where, at a cost of $44,800, shipwrights stripped off all her double hull planking, altered every frame, shortened her keel and covered her again with single splined planks...
...next week's "shakedown cruise," as Munro calls the trip, will give the veteran coach and his first-year assistant Bruce MacLeod, a former goalie at Williams, a chance to look at this year's large crop of sophomores in top-flight competition, to see "just how golden the wealth really...
...Saturn 1-B rocket to go into orbit for as long as Grissom, White and Chaffee could take it, an "open-end" mission that marked a bold departure from the rigidly limited space flights of the past. It was to be essentially an engineering flight, a manned shakedown for the Apollo systems, which had already twice been fired aloft without anyone aboard. If things went well, Apollo 204 would lead to two other manned flights later this year, and then, possibly as early as 1968, to fulfillment of man's ancient vision of a landing on the moon...