Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Come summer's dog days and Americans tend toward extremes. Some exhaust themselves swimming, gardening or golfing while others conserve energy lolling about on back porches or public beaches. But a growing number of people, in the search for a happy medium, are rediscovering a sport as old as the first air-pressure auto tire-tubing...
...Citroën, also market front-wheel cars. According to Olds engineers, front-wheel drive offers more traction and stability than conventional rear drive; it also eliminates the hump on the floor (because the transmission and differential are up front). Other engineers contend that front-wheel cars tend to oversteer, and that the added weight forward causes greater wear on brakes. The Toronado, a two-door, six-passenger hardtop that is four inches shorter than Oldsmobile's 215-in. Starfire, will come to market in mid-October. Price in Detroit: about $4,500-in the same range as Ford...
Among our college generation, war is unpleasant to contemplate, unfashionable to defend, and seems uncomfortably close. And as a consequence, military types are not afforded too many looks of glazed admiration. They tend to raise visions of General Jack D. Ripper and have suspect...
...prestigious American Law Institute may offer a way out of the Escobedo impasse with a model code of pre-arraignment procedure that is being force-drafted by Harvard Law Professor James Vorenberg and dozens of eminent advisers. The drafters tend to approve police interrogation of suspects under proper safeguards. Though the precise formula is still being debated, one possible answer is that grilling should be made "visible"-if not to outside witnesses, then from the evidence of movie cameras or tape recorders...
Angry Charles de Gaulle had threatened to boycott the Common Market, and last week boycott he did. First, French officials were forbidden to at tend any policy-making Common Market meetings. Then France's Jean-Marc Boegner, permanent delegate to the community's Brussels headquarters, abruptly returned to Paris without so much as an au revoir to Common Mar ket President Walter Hallstein...