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...models are 1 in. lower, have a wider, cleaner grille, new wrap-around windshields, and slanted headlights for a more rakish look. Mercury's new luxury model, the Montclair, has an even more powerful (198 h.p.) engine and a body that is 2½ in. lower (height: 58½ in.) than other Mercurys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Three More for the Road | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...Promise for a Street Cleaner. Scornful of the old Brazilian custom of political favoritism, Café Filho always says no to visitors who ask his help in bypassing laws or civil-service regulations. To a salesman seeking a Foreign Ministry job, he said: "Apply and pass the examinations." A lawyer asked for a special import license. " No, it's against the law," said the President. "But it's always been done," protested the lawyer. "I am here to apply the law and you ask me to break it!" snapped Café Filho. His smile vanished, and his fist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: A Day with the President | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...frequent condition of his living quarters-in Hollywood a five-room bungalow in Benedict Canyon, in New York City a vast studio in Carnegie Hall-was perhaps best described by a man who came to deliver a vacuum cleaner. "That boy doesn't need a vacuum cleaner," he said. "He needs a plow." The mess was at its worst in the days when Marlon had a pet raccoon, but even before that, it sometimes got pretty bad. Actress Shelley Winters reports that when Marlon and Comic Wally Cox shared a Manhattan apartment, they once undertook to paint the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...accessories: newspapers and empty beer bottles. With the bottles as stiffeners, newspapers are rolled into bolsters to shield the mother from outside germs. Explains the center's Co-Director Dr. Harry B. Benaron: "We don't say that newspapers are germfree, but they are certainly cleaner than the sheets we find in the average home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Baby Commandos | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Clean Sweep. A bantamweight vacuum cleaner was readied for the market by Westinghouse Electric Corp. Designed so it can be carried about the house on a shoulder strap, the 7-lb. 3-oz. Porta-Vac is about the size of a portable radio but is 80% as powerful as a full-size vacuum cleaner. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

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