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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At General Motors' modern, air-conditioned brick plant in Livonia, Mich, one day last week, the second shift had just filed in to start a normal day's work turning out Hydra-Matic transmissions for G.M., Lincoln, Kaiser, Hudson and Nash. Moments later, sparks from a welder'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Disaster's Bottleneck | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

Medallion Theater (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS-TV) is a potentially first-rate summer series that, so far, has had trouble getting off the ground. The first program was a painstaking, rather flat dramatization of an episode from Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith. Others have included The Man Who Liked Dickens, starring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Summer Shows | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

There are still some big yachts. Last week several of them, led by the 161-ft. schooner Goodwill, were making port in Honolulu at the end of a 2,225-mile race from San Pedro, Calif.* Likewise, there are still some big, venerable and fairly standoffish yacht clubs, where the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Design for Living | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

What has changed, drastically, is the purpose of the scholarships themselves. Cecil Rhodes, who used to ride across the veld with a well-worn copy of Plato in his saddlebag, wanted the scholarships to go not to mere "bookworms," but to well-rounded leaders-"the best men for the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Best for the Fight | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

At the high jumping pit, Texas' towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Olympic Champion Walter ("Buddy") Davis, 22, sternly eyed a bar set at 6 ft. 11 ½ in.-half an inch above the world record. Twice he rushed the bar with seven-league strides, then floated his 210 Ibs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Toward a Golden Age? | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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