Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chrysler, which along with the company's highest-priced Imperial line, goes up 45 h.p., to a top 325 h.p., has another 31 in. chopped off the height (down to 57 in.) but no change from last year's 126-in. wheel base. Like DeSoto, Chrysler will add a third line, the Saratoga, which will fit in between its Windsor and high-priced New Yorker lines as competition for the big Buicks and Oldsmobiles...
...Hudson, which follows the industry trend to sportier style with a flashy, V-shaped grille, sweeping tailfins and a lower top that cuts overall height 2 in., to 60 in. Biggest engineering change: a new V-8 engine for the Hudson Hornet, which turns up 255 h.p., 35 h.p. more than last year, with a four-barrel carburetor and dual exhausts as standard equipment...
Anchoring the scrum is captain Terry Turner, now playing his fourth season for the Crimson at eight man. He and locks Tony Markella and Bill Shane, both converted football players, are the heaviest forwards, with flanker Geoff Locke having the height necessary for lineouts. Huff and sophomore Dave Steinberg are the likely props...
Wessell said yesterday that "this is the worst secretarial shortage we've had since 1952," when the Korean War was at its height. "For the past four years we've always been able to fill vacancies," he said, "but this year it's taking anywhere from three weeks to three months...
...thing for a university to sponsor political speeches as part of its educational program--although the wisdom of that might also be questioned. But it is quite another to permit its "educational" program to be televised nationally by a political party at the height of a Presidential campaign. The Cornell conference throws the moral weight of a state-and-federally subsidized institution behind one candidate and one party. A personal invitation from a university president to an unavoidably partisan press conference does anything but clarify political issues for college students, or for anyone...