Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lottery in which every draft-age male in the country would have an equal chance of being picked has some advocates. In their view, it would be perfectly equitable: no one would get special treatment, the idiosyncrasies of local boards would be bypassed. But to Hershey, such roulette-wheel selection simply would dodge national responsibility. "A lottery says, I don't know enough to make a proper selection, so I'm going to hide my ignorance behind chance...
Apparently the driver did not hear her knocking at the back door and began to accelerate. Mrs. Dow slipped and fell beneath the vehicle and her head was crushed by the right rear wheel...
...Pontiac '66s include 600 from one assembly plant that left wheel nuts un-tightened on the left sides of cars; so far, 570 have been rechecked...
...copilot, Air Force Colonel Joseph Cotton, 44, knew something was amiss with their landing gear. Pursuit jets monitoring the flight reported that one of the two tires on Cecil's forward gear had blown and the entire assembly was jammed against the partly open doors of the wheel cavity. A computer governing the gear's operation had malfunctioned, causing the doors to start closing before the gear had fully retracted. One door had knifed into a tire, and the entire mechanism was locked in an inoperative position. Inability to free it would leave the pilots no choice...
...whipping the plane's nose up and down, ground engineers pored over charts in order to pinpoint the exact cause of the trouble. They concluded that a short circuit had snarled the computer, which was programmed to allow the landing gear to rise and descend only when the wheel-cavity doors were fully open. Control of the gear thus had to be removed from the computer. By causing a second short circuit, ground engineers advised, the pilots might manage to circumvent the computer and disengage the landing gear from the cockpit...