Word: thunderbolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taking a different tack, Electric Fuel Propulsion, Inc., of Ferndale, Mich., has designed the Thunderbolt, which uses a more powerful and longer lasting battery system than other electrics, enabling it to travel almost twice as far between recharges at speeds of up to 70 m.p.h. Complete recharging takes about 90 minutes (special equipment and electric lines are necessary) and costs approximately 1? per mile. Most important, the Thunderbolt uses the body and other parts of standard-production Detroit automobiles, mounted on top of a special heavy-duty chassis. Main drawback: the price is a Cadillac-like...
Then came a thunderbolt from Saigon. A spokesman for South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu declared that his government would not sign any political agreement worked out between only Kissinger and Tho. Acknowledging that Washington and Hanoi can strike whatever deals they please in matters concerning only them, such as possible U.S. aid for North Viet Nam, Saigon insisted that it be present at any sessions where decisions were made affecting South Viet...
...have a conclusion, and I think that conclusion will be bad." She sometimes predicts that she will finish her life paralyzed or crippled, old and alone and above all unloved, with nothing but her books to keep her company. Perhaps it is in hopes of warding off a crippling thunderbolt that she still resists being a star, plays down her fame, dresses unremarkably. "You look just like Liv Ullmann," Oslo store clerks often tell her. "Do you think so?" she always replies. "That's what everybody says...
...Government, which claims it was not consulted in advance on Thieu's thunderbolt, nevertheless tried to put a good face on the situation. In Washington, State Department Spokesman Charles W. Bray conceded the need for stability "at the extreme local level" during the offensive. Other Americans were less sanguine, pointing out that democracy in South Viet Nam has usually been mere window dressing for the benefit of Westerners. All Thieu has done now, said one Foreign Service officer at the U.S. embassy in Saigon, is to "take the glove off the iron fist...
...novels, written in Russian mostly during the '20s and '30s, this is the last to be published in English. One regrets at once that there will not be more. Though a brand-new novel is promised for late this year, it will not be prefaced by the thunderbolt from Montreux, which has become customary in these translations, in which the author instructs his Johnny-come-lately audience in his older works...