Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above all, the nurses seemed enthusiastically dedicated to their calling. Their natural leader was Gloria Jean Davy, 22, one of six children of a Dyer, Ind., steel-plant foreman, and a onetime national "Sweetheart of the Future Farmers of America," who had recent ly been elected president of the Illinois Student Nurses Association; Gloria planned to join the Peace Corps after finishing training in August. Athletic Suzanne Bridget Farris, 21, one of three children of a Chicago Transit Authority superintendent, hoped to specialize in pediatric nursing, was engaged to be married next spring to the brother of another nurse, Mary...
Fashioned from steel and concrete and reminiscent of the arms-out stretched statue of Christ on Rio de Janeiro's Corcovado Mountain, the 67-ft.-high "Christ of the Ozarks" is visible ten miles away, will soon be illuminated at night by blue, violet and purple spot lights. Why did Smith put it up? "A vision in my own heart," he says, "of wanting to see a statue of Jesus Christ rise in monumental splendor." And, ah, another reason: Smith plans to use the statue as a grave marker for his wife and himself, is having a cemetery prepared...
Andrew Carnegie U.S. Steel Corp...
...plastic sealing rings designed to keep the lubricant in and moisture out were not up to the task, giving the steering and suspension assembly the mechanical equivalent of an arthritic knee. Though no accidents were reported, corrosion in the ball joints could lead first to a pained wail of steel on steel and eventually to loose wheels and a front-end shimmy. Now worn joints will be replaced and tougher sealing rings installed, at Volkswagen's expense...
Beyond that, Prime Minister Harold Wilson angered industry and the financial community by scaling down the amount that the government proposed to spend on nationalizing Britain's 13 largest steel companies...