Word: davision
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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'...
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...
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...
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...
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...