Word: rattletrap
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...understanding and -- pop! -- a burst of flashbulbs records the moment for posterity. But as the cold war winds down, history is offering up startling new images that bear none of the hallmarks of traditional statesmanship. Last week history was made amid the flutter of colorful balloons, the sputtering of rattletrap Trabants and Wartburgs and -- pop! -- the burst of champagne corks. It was the Great Trek Westward, and as East Germans headed for new lives in West Germany, the world witnessed a unique spectacle: an East European country defying its Warsaw Pact brethren and openly collaborating with the West...
...allowed to travel faster than 15 m.p.h. Cleveland is refurbishing 50-year-old trolleys on the Shaker Heights line. Though the maximum efficient life for a bus is twelve years, Los Angeles is repairing some dating back to the early '50s. Kansas City has reactivated 60 rattletrap buses that it previously had retired. In desperation, Houston is leasing buses from Continental Trailways, and Miami is pressing school buses into service...
They are worried about a lot more than just production and profits. The temper of the times has moved them: they see the rattletrap slums as they are driven in from the suburbs; they hear their young managers, products of the 60s, speak of dreams unfulfilled; they listen to their wives and daughters tell The men at the top in business- a bit self-conscious that theirs is a white, male domain- are trying to respond. Most are struggling with ways to hire, their train and capital and promote more intellect to women, revive the blacks and cities. Almost Hispanics...
...dogs were symptomatic of the chaotic conditions at the college itself. After seven years of operation in a rattletrap former resort hotel in the White Mountains, Franconia was near collapse. In 1968 the archconservative Manchester Union Leader had published an exaggerated exposé that portrayed the college's scruffy students as rich freaks who spent more time at drug and sex orgies than at their books. The notoriety so unnerved the trustees that they fired the president. Before long, half the 40-member faculty quit and a third of the 240 students withdrew. Insurance companies suddenly canceled policies. Worried...
...after a fashion. After a long, hopscotch flight back from Mexico in a small plane, Torrijos finally landed by the light of torches at a remote airstrip near David, 300 miles west of Panama City. Then came a triumphant, ten-hour ride into the capital in a fleet of rattletrap buses whose entourage of private cars and cheering campesinos grew at every hamlet...