Word: founded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, too heavy, too brassy." What TIME was reporting did not agree with many of the automakers' market surveys. But when auto sales skidded down sharply, TIME again updated the subject in a cover story on the Big Three (May 12, 1958), buttonholed motorists around the land. TIME found that they really thought U.S. cars were "too complicated," "too full of gadgets," "too expensive," and that "they all look alike...
...blonde Janice Drake, 33, onetime showgirl, Miss New Jersey in 1944, and wife of TV Comic Allen Drake. Like Augie, Jan had a talent for encountering people just before curtain time. She was questioned closely about Anastasia's death, and Nat Nelson, a playboy garment distributor, was found murdered in his bachelor apartment the morning after a date with...
...Copa, then went on to a spaghetti house (Husband Drake had a nightclub engagement in Washington). After dinner, they headed for the Drake home in Queens to look at boxing matches on TV. They never got there. Forty-five minutes after leaving Manhattan, Augie's black Cadillac was found on a quiet street in Queens, its motor still running. Jan Drake was slumped against the car window, one bullet hole in her temple, a second in her neck. The diminutive mobster lay dead with his head on her lap, one chubby hand still clutching the wheel and the blood...
...pitted their ill-equipped guerrilla bands against an army of half a million men armed with everything from flamethrowers to jets. In compensation, the rebels have relied heavily and successfully on a moral weapon: the 20th century's prevailing anticolonialism. Last week, to their public confusion, the rebels found themselves for the first time at a moral disadvantage...
Specifically, it was found, in a study of the English Department of Newton High School in the summer of 1956, that 30 percent of the material could be most suitably presented by a single, well-prepared and equipped lecturer speaking to a large group of students...