Word: skidding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sato's skid has launched a scramble for power within his Liberal Democratic party, which dominates Japanese politics. Fukuda is so closely identified with Sato that political oddsmakers give him only about a 50-50 chance to succeed him as premier. So far, he has three contenders to face: Minister of International Trade and Industry Kakuei Tanaka, 53, a tough, brilliant self-made man, and two former foreign ministers, Takeo Miki, 64, who favors closer relations with Peking, and Masayoshi Ohira, 61, who has solid business support. Whoever wins will have a rocky time...
Unhinged. Yet Corona stands accused of wantonly slaughtering at least two dozen men, some of them drifters from Marysville's Skid Row. Indeed, his history has its seamy side. He and his elder brother Natividad, a known homosexual, came to the U.S. illegally in the late 1940s. They both won U.S. resident-alien permits, however, and began to prosper. Juan became a contractor who assembled work gangs before dawn and delivered them to the local orchards; Natividad bought the seedy but popular Guadalajara Cafe in Marysville. Juan was unhinged by the Feather River flood of December 1955, which killed...
Exemplary Father. The public case against Corona left many questions unanswered. The dead men were believed to be drifters, some from as far away as Baton Rouge, La., and Atlanta. Corona specialized in recruiting short-term farm-labor crews principally from among the Skid Row winos of Yuba City or neighboring Marysville. Corona collected them in an old blue school bus with his name lettered on the side; the first victim reported missing, Sigrid Beierman, also known as Pete Peterson, was last seen about six weeks ago being driven away by a Mexican labor contractor...
...Uncle Sam for a bailout. The company wants Congress to authorize an unprecedented federal guarantee of a $250 million loan to save its wholly commercial L-1011 plane, a medium-range "airbus" designed to carry 250 passengers. If Congress refuses, the company's management warns that Lockheed will skid into bankruptcy, upsetting a business empire that employs 75,000 people in 26 states. This would add to the unemployment rolls, particularly in California, and dim President Nixon's chances of carrying the state...
...Italian sweet vermouths are simply flavored wines; Greeks add resin to wine to produce retsina. Indeed, products like Thunderbird (a citrus-flavored wine that is 18% alcohol) have been on U.S. shelves for more than a decade. These cheap, more potent brands should continue to sell, mostly to the Skid Row set, despite the pop-wine invasion. What would a serious wino want, after all, with a low-alcohol tipple called Annie Greensprings...