Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chrysler '62s were in many cases made with weak steering linkage tie-rod joints that could affect drive control; 346,008 cars were "campaigned" to eliminate the weakness...
...Buick LeSabre '65s and Wildcat '65s turned up a batch of cars with weak wheels; they were replaced on 11,257 cars...
...better solution than the uncertain safeguard of self-regulation would be the bill now before Congress authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to set mandatory minimum safety standards. The customer himself can hardly detect weak door latches or lance-like steering columns whose deadlines might show up only in a crash. But federal inspectors could locate the hidden killers and require manufacturers to eliminate them. Just as significantly, the government could insure continuing progress in automotive safety by demanding that technical innovations such as the collapsible steering column be installed as soon as they are developed. Then foot-dragging on features...
...girl who loses her nice guy lover Bernard, gets seduced by Benito the tough guy, but returns to Bernard when Benito is shot by Babe, his old girl friend. The story line isn't so hot, but the dancing is terrific. Even the chorus--which is usually the weak spot in JDW shows--looked good, especially in dramatic scenes like the entrapment of Bluesette. Ron Porter was his usual tough self, as Benito. Eric Lessinger, as Bernard, was a little to effeminate in his white ballet slippers, but perhaps that's the way the nice boy was supposed to look...
...Paul D. Parkman. Though German measles is almost invariably trivial for all but the baby in the womb, the raw virus could not be used as a vaccine because of the danger that newly vaccinated children might spread the infection to pregnant women. The researchers' task was to weak en the virus, and strike a delicate balance, leaving it infectious for those who are vaccinated, but noninfectious for their contacts. They decided to domesticate the virus in cultures of kidney cells from African green monkeys...