Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Authoritative library officials denied, however, that Lamont will become co-educational as early as January of 1963. They predict the switch over will occur closer to the end of the two year period...
...fish flies swarmed, and the rickety Stork Club Ballroom had just disgorged 800 jazz fans. By 2:25 a.m., all 23 bandsmen had clambered aboard the big silver, red and white bus, followed by Bandleader Stan Kenton carrying a cardboard carton with 30 ham sandwiches. Somebody snapped on the switch of a blue light that signified drinking time, and the bus began to roll...
...Ceremony. When he was picked to run Henschel five years ago, Goergen un ceremoniously began by firing most of Henschel's top management, decreeing an immediate switch into diesel and electric locomotives and cutting the company's truck line from 45 models to ten. Simultaneously, he diversified into road-building equipment, machine tools, diesel generators, military vehicles and helicopters. Many of the new products were built under licensing agreements with such U.S. firms as E. W. Bliss (road builders) and Prodex Corp. (plastics machinery). By 1960 Henschel had tripled its sales and was showing a profit...
...feasible. The U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency issued a four-page booklet stating that "there may be substantially fewer earthquakes that produce signals equivalent to an underground nuclear explosion of given yield than had been expected." All by itself, that brief statement represented quite a switch; the Defense Department has usually favored the attitude that secret Russian underground tests could not be distinguished from natural earthquakes except by dozens of seismic stations spaced a few hundred miles apart on Communist territory...
...decline (from 10% to 8% this year) in its share of the U.S. auto market, has done a massive restyling job on almost all its models. The Chrysler 300 will acquire a new sheet-metal skin and squared-off rear that give its lines a handsome simplicity. Plymouth will switch to a Thunderbird-like roof, will also square off its 1962 rear end-irreverently known in Detroit as the "duck butt." The Valiant, adding a convertible to its line, will grow 2 in. and abandon the European styling it has worn for the past three years in favor of more...