Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French "worker priests" (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950), they live and work with their flocks, do not always reveal themselves as priests, seek to convert by example as well as by precept. Bouyer earns his daily bread as a production hand in the Hispano Suiza plant; Cagne in the Simca auto factory. Sometimes, say critics of the worker-priest scheme, it is the priests, not their fellow workers who get converted...
...pickup was also felt in the auto industry. With credit relaxed, sales rose; dealers had only 256,793 cars on hand v. 369,101 at this time last year. Demand was so brisk that it was again taking as long as eight weeks to get delivery on a Ford or Chevrolet, and four to six months on a Cadillac. Independents, whose sales had been soggiest, shared in the rise; Hudson's sales were up 40% for April and May, and Kaiser-Frazer's also gained. The buying impetus spilled over into appliances; General Electric reported its May sales...
Died. Isabel Townsend Pell. 51, New York socialite and a heroine of the French underground during World War II; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After brief flings at real estate, the stage and auto racing, she joined the Maquis in 1940 at her summer home, in Auribeau on the Riviera. Known as "Fredericka" and la fille å la mėche blonde (because of a lock of white hair on her forehead), she served the Resistance movement for four years, once rescued 16 U.S. paratroopers stranded behind enemy lines...
This common condition, Menzel believes, is responsible for many of the saucer sightings (see diagram). The warm air overhead turns downward the light from bright objects, such as street lights or auto headlamps. If the "interface" is too turbulent, it can form no visible image, but if it is just steady enough, it will create bright images that seem to sweep rapidly across the dark sky. This is the explanation, says Menzel, for the famous "Lubbock Lights,"* which have been taken for interplanetary space ships flying in formation. They may be the images of a string of lights...
...drama. NBC is ready with half a dozen musical programs, ranging from an Armed Forces talent show called Stars in Khaki & Blue to the Stan Kenton Concerts, a weekly series of "revolutionary jazz" broadcast from different cities in the U.S. and Canada. CBS, aiming at the beach and auto trade, will broadcast 2½ hours of music, news, weather reports and baseball scores each Sunday afternoon...