Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...January-July production plummeted from 832,122 last year to 370,359 this year, will get into the small-car boom by marketing the French Simca. Chrysler bought a "substantial interest" in Simca, including Ford Motor Co.'s 15.2% of stock. The Simca, which looks like a kissing cousin to Renault's fast-selling Dauphine, last year almost tripled its U.S. sales to 5,766. Its major models range from the 57-h.p., four-cylinder, 96-in.-wheelbase Aronde, priced at about $1,700 in New York, to the 84-h.p., eight-cylinder, 106-in. Vedette...
Indeed, that ghost and a somewhat inane collection of conversation and childhood incident called "Cousin Jack" are the only real faults of the current issue. Hill, Hickock, Claude McNeal (who edites the magazine along with Hickock) and a couple of the female poets seem to be looking at Eliot as a mentor or an enemy--but not looking beyond him. A bogus character named T.E. Stearns goes on for several pages of Eliot parody--which should have gone out of fashion several decades...
...cousin King Feisal had been killed, his country's union with Iraq shattered by the Baghdad revolt. His own throne was in jeopardy, his own life in danger. At a critical moment when he still had no pledge of outside help and no firm assurance that his own troops would remain loyal, King Hussein I, a 22-year-old boy turned man, chose to hang on and to fight back. For sheer pluck and determination, no man in the Middle East surpassed him last week...
Throughout the broad farm belt the U.S. farmer is determined to live as well as his city cousin. And he has the money...
Killing for Defense. Minor characters of Cut and Shoot included Cousin Armadillo, who stays on the Harris farm because he likes it, is called "Armadillo" because he has killed (he claims) 6,632 of the little beasts and keeps their ears to prove it-and Uncle Bob, who killed a man. Explained Roy's brother Tobe: "This fellow decided to kill Uncle Bob. He and two pals caught Bob in a saloon. The fellow offered Bob a drink, and when Bob lifted it to his lips, he hit him in the head with an automobile wrench. Bob staggered...