Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...annual battle of the automakers, this year's big weapon is the small car. Largely to combat the inroads made by the imports, which have lately captured more than 15% of the nation's auto market, American Motors has brought out the Gremlin, General Motors has introduced the Vega, and Ford the Pinto. In anxious counterattack, Germany's Volkswagen and Japan's Toyota are mounting an assault with new models at prices that remain equal to or lower than those of competitive U.S. cars...
...military and space specialists are being cut loose at a time when general sluggishness in the economy is reducing job opportunities in civilian business. But many of the superskilled might not do well even in a boom. Job-hunting is one knack that they lack. Their experience has been limited to choosing among employers eager to hire them at relatively high salaries...
Died. Murray C. Bernays, 75, New York lawyer who as a colonel attached to the U.S. War Department General Staff in 1944 was largely responsible for setting up the legal procedures used during the trial of Nazi war criminals at Nürnberg; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Died. Major General Howard M. Snyder, 89, Army doctor, physical-fitness buff and sometime medical adviser to Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served Ike when he was Army Chief of Staff and Allied Supreme Commander in Europe, convinced him to give up smoking and, as official White House physician, encouraged his friend and President to take up painting and play more golf; of heart disease; in Washington...
Major Gen. Timothy J. Regan, adjutant general of Massachusetts, said "positively no guns were taken" in the September 20 fire-bombing of the Newburyport Armory, although ammunition...