Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Rests. In Port Moresby, New Guinea, Supreme Court officials noticed that Defendant Bia Umeme was missing, found him fast asleep on the floor of the prisoner's dock...
...meet the requirements of both sound practice and parental desire, more and more schools are adding one loophole to the hard-and-fast age rule: examination of borderline cases by a competent child psychologist. A survey last year by the National Education Association disclosed widespread sentiment for the idea, already in use in about 15% of U.S. school systems. "Testing the child and counseling the parent," predicted one school principal, "will some day replace age as the criteria." Last week in Cherry Creek, a well-to-do suburb of Denver, Superintendent Robert Higday Shreve countered the general acceptance of definite...
Next to Marlene Dietrich, Germany's most ageless export is the fast, shapely Mercedes-Benz, whose three-pointed-star symbol has long been associated with riches and beauty. To the world's auto connoisseurs, the Mercedes offers not only superb craftsmanship and loving attention to detail, but conservative styling that has not basically changed since the 1930s. But even the grand old lady of the auto world (Stuttgart's proud Daimler-Benz, Mercedes' maker, claims to be the world's oldest auto producer) occasionally indulges in a bit of sprucing up. Last week Daimler-Benz...
Fourth Biggest. The man in Mercedes' driver's seat is foxy Friedrich Flick, 75, a convicted war criminal who lost 80% of his steel fortune at war's end, bought a 37½% interest in Daimler-Benz between 1954 and 1957. Flick has driven Mercedes so fast and furiously that his stock has risen in value from $20 million to $200 million, and he has rocketed back to become Germany's No. 2 industrialist (after Alfried Krupp). Seeking a smaller car for the Mercedes line, Flick had Daimler buy 88% of the competing Auto Union company...
Wanted-Dead or Alive (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Only another shoot-'em-up, but a welcome sign of a change in the weather. When Steve McQueen, as Bounty Hunter Josh Randal, takes up with "the Montana Kid," he will be the first of the fast-draw men to desert reruns and start fresh shows for the new fall season...