Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looking mighty Establishment in his white open-collar shirt and navy-blue suit, John Carlos sits at a table in the headquarters of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, where he now works. Behind one shoulder the American flag, behind the other the Olympic. But for a bum ankle, he says, he could still tear up the track. The last time we saw John Carlos was 1968 on a podium in Mexico City, standing in the grainy evening light rigid as an exclamation point. The black-power salute; an antique of the '60s. He is speaking of something else...
...ocean. The water's too rough. He said you can't go to the public pool; everybody's trying to cool off. Everything he said made sense. So I started to walk off like with my lip stuck out. And he tapped me on the shoulder and he said: Look, man, the heaviest hasn't come yet. They have private clubs, but you can't join any of them. And I said: Why? Because we can't afford it? He said no. Because you're colored; they won't let you in. So I walked off in a kind...
...huge loophole in the Dole order, the plan was also criticized by many in the auto industry who cringe at the idea of installing expensive safety devices. "I regret the necessity of this kind of ruling," said Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca. "The best safety device, the lap and shoulder belt, is in 100 million cars right now." American Motors Chairman Paul Tippett is concerned about the 1987 model-year deadline for passive restraints. Said he: "The worst thing is to deliver air bags or seat belts that are not right...
...officials of oil-rich Kuwait, led by Defense Minister Sheik Salem al-Sabah, flew to Moscow last week on a ten-day arms-buying trip. High on the Kuwaiti shopping list were sophisticated SA-8 surface-to-air missiles, as well as shoulder-fired SA-7's, as substitutes for the Stinger anti-aircraft weapons that the Reagan Administration declined to supply last month on the grounds that Congress would veto the deal. The Soviets seemed happy to oblige: the two parties initialed a weapons-purchase agreement, although no details were announced...
...Michael's heft all along. Besides freighting an amount of equipment unprecedented even for a rock extravaganza-375 tons of it in 22 semitrailers, including two outdoor stages and one indoor stage, 64,000 lbs. of sound-and-light equipment, and eleven hydraulic elevators-the Jacksons had to shoulder the weight of Michael's colossal celebrity. That might not, at first, seem like such a burden. It was the monster success of Michael's Thriller album, which seems to have turned into a kind of long-playing Guinness statistic (35 million copies sold to date: seven...