Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potential buyers and Detroit's automakers, peeked under the wraps for a look at some of the still secret '59s. To find out what they learned, why 1959 looks like a big car year, and to get a pictorial sneak preview of the new models, see BUSINESS, Fast Getaway. DIPLOMATS have negotiated about it, politicians have exploited it, editorialists have pondered it. But what is really happening on Quemoy? TIME'S Jim Bell, who has been there before, went back last week on the first plane that would take him and filed a moving report. See FOREIGN...
...timetable, is a stickler for details ("Honest Ave, the Hairsplitter"). He badgers aides at all hours, once sent state police searching for a commissioner who had failed to check out properly. Intense, he can work his staff to exhaustion, still feel fit himself, takes pride in making fast judgments and quick decisions ("It's just like tennis"). Says a close adviser: "He's found his greatest love in being Governor...
Sole Life Line. The free counsel is also serious medicine. Radio constantly fingers patients who need hospitalization, gets doctors out fast to the bush by plane. Alerted by radio last month, Fairbanks' Dr. Jean Persons, a minister's thirtyish daughter who has braved many a stormy night flight, rushed to a man who had tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chin. She landed in time to stop the blood, took him back for plastic surgery...
...first big sale of securities since early August, the Treasury last week showed how fast interest rates are climbing. It offered $1 billion in 13-month notes paying 3½%, v. 1½% for short-term securities sold in August, and $2.5 billion in special 219-day bills priced to yield 3¼%. Only three months ago Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson sold 27-year bonds, which usually sell at a far higher rate than short-term securities, at only...
Peep Show. The earliest starter-General Motors' Buick-broke away fast. Buick General Manager Edward T. Ragsdale happily reported that dealers sold an estimated 20,000 the first two days, ordered 52,358 more the first week. In little more than a week, Buick had accomplished a sales job that required two months last year. From Boston to Seattle, showroom crowds ran two to four times higher than last year's. So did firm orders. "Only one thing has kept us from selling a whole lot more right now," said Sales Manager Clarence J. Lauer of Emerson...