Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recording of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture blasted out into the cool spring air over Harvard Square, 2,000 Harvard (and other) students rioted, tossed bags full of water and a typewriter or two out of windows, and demonstrated against Cambridge Council Member Alfred Vellucci. who had suggested that Harvard be made a separate state "like the Vatican in Rome." Vellucci had already been voted down when he proposed to a city council meeting that Harvard's land be taken "by eminent domain" to be used as parking areas, which the city needs. The student riot was allegedly...
...cheap imitations of modern designs that even where glassed-in modern houses are suitable, many buyers are going back to traditional designs. The hottest sellers in Dallas this year are Georgian. Colonial and even houses with French Provincial trims, but all are modified to give the kind of light, cool living that buyers demand in the Texas climate. In Califor nia, the swing to traditional houses has brought back "Cinderella" and "Storybook" houses with leaded-glass windows and dormers...
...splits prize money 50-50 with his drivers and (unlike most automakers) gives them a guaranteed minimum, win or lose, thus has his pick of the world's best drivers. He picks his pilots with the care he puts into tuning an engine, teams a cool, canny technician such as World Champion Juan Fangio with a hotspur such as Eugenio Castellotti, who won this year's Mille Miglia...
...poorhouse unless he gets a few billions more to balance his budget. This year Schäffer, who bows to no man as a politician, has a tounded his audience by capering out and saying he is ready to cut taxes by $300 million, even after promising a cool billion for new farm subsidies. And how will he raise it? It's an open secret in Bonn that he will just get the Chancellor to let him use the greater part of the $2.1 billion earmarked for defense spending this year. The new army is so far behind schedule...
...more powerful airplane engines to help give the U.S. an Air Force and commercial fleet second to none. In the pursuit Fred Rentschler built United Aircraft Corp. into one of the world's biggest producers of engines (Pratt & Whitney) as well as propellers (Hamilton Standard) and helicopters (Sikorsky). Cool and shrewd, with a mind that ticked with the same precision as his beloved engines, he was never afraid to be called wrong if he thought he was right...