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Labor has its incentive systems, its ruby-studded 25-year pins, its bowling leagues, ad infinitum, but no pride of workmanship. My blood boils every time I drive to the auto dealer and am questioned: "What's wrong with it?" If I don't know, they don'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

At 32,000 ft. in the dark Texas skies, Air Force Lieut. James Edward Obenauf made a split-second, life-and-death decision. Around him, his six-jet B-47* seemed to be falling apart: the right outboard engine was boiling with flame, scattering red-hot pieces of steel across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: How Obie Won His Medal | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Fresh Start. In Lyon, France, Railroad Employee Roger Clavey-Rolles, 35, charged with breaking into a woman passenger's sleeping compartment on the Narbonne-Paris Express, explained to police: "I wanted to begin the year in good company."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 20, 1958 | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Convertible TV. The first TV receiver that can be converted from a console or a table model into a portable was announced last week by Sylvania Electric Products Inc. The 21-in. model is transformed by removing an entire unit from the larger console, placing the console's detachable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

A Venezuelan official dropped by a small automobile-body shop outside Manhattan one morning last week to inspect a package for home: a $9,000 midnight-blue 1957 Cadillac, equipped with $21,000 worth of special accessories for President Marcos Perez Jimenez. At the push of a button, the '...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Sweet Chariot | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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