Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHAT are the 1959 cars like? And how well will they be liked? These are always important questions when the new models start to roll, but they have a greater significance this year because the answers will have a vital effect on the U.S. economy. For the answers, TIME correspondents spoke to more than 100 dealers around the country, interviewed potential buyers and Detroit's automakers, peeked under the wraps for a look at some of the still secret '59s. To find out what they learned, why 1959 looks like a big car year...
Agricultural and industrial equipment constitutes the main exhibit. Numerous signs give statistics on the number of Russian workers, the amounts produced. There are photographs of husky Russian women operating factory machines, and an emphasis on women's participation in athletics. There is a new Russian car which resembles a new American car and there is a life-sized model of a modern apartment--but there is no evidence as to how many Soviet citizens can afford these luxuries...
...desires to teach. "I strongly recommend this idea of a year or two teaching at a prep school before going to a college or university. For one thing it's economical: I saved enough in two years to finance my first year at grad school and buy a car, too. And best of all, you discover more of the true joy of teaching than you will at any college...
...been happy with Labaree. He was deemed "outstanding" at Exeter, the same at C.C.W. He's popular as a teacher--efficient, outgoing, enthusiastic--and they were certainly happy with him at Leverett House. So all indications point to general happiness at Winthrop House. After all, he drives a foreign car...
...series of seminars sponsored by the Harvard Eisenhower Young Republican Club, cited an 1850 Massachusetts case in which the Supreme Court ruled for continued school segregation. He also mentioned the Plessy vs. Ferguson case (Louisiana) of 1896, concerning a mulatto who refused to ride in a separate Negro railroad car. The Supreme Court upheld public segregation laws in that case...