Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Kennedy's recent warning that this fact has begun to pinch U.S. exports did the Government start to do something about it. Last week, heeding Kennedy's call for "corrective action," both the Commerce Department and the Federal Maritime Commission began putting pressure on shippers to straighten out rates...
...movie with glittering new hardware (B-52s instead of B-47s) and a dull old theme: "Will SACcess spoil Rock Hudson?" Rock is an Air Force colonel assigned to command a SAC Wing that has just flunked its Operational Readiness Inspection. His job is to make the Wing straighten up and fly right, and he works brutally hard at the job - with the in evitable domestic complications. His wife (Mary Peach), who feels with some reason that her fuselage is more interesting than a B-52's, chews him out for spending too much time...
...that American citizens cannot deal with the Red Chinese; it all had to be replaced with substitutes. In London the automatic-elevator doors closed so fast, the telephones worked so sporadically and the Muzak system sometimes shrieked so loudly that Hilton had to dispatch experts from the U.S. to straighten things out. The air-conditioning failed in one of the New York Hilton's kitchens, driving the heat up so high that it set off the fire sprinklers and drenched the chef and the food. Someone discovered that the automatic billing system liked to drop decimals after one guest...
Your very excellent rendition of the obstacles imposed on the not-so-glory-ridden Peace Corpsmen surely helped to straighten out many thwarted images held by many reposing onlookers on many "front porches of the U.S." WALLY PARHAM Stillwater, Okla...
...only one of many woes coach Bruce Munro will have to cope with today. Joey Prahl is sidelined with a sprained ankle, goalie Gil Leaf is still on crutches, defenseman John Carroll popped his bad knee, and Captain Al Straus will play with an arm he can't straighten...