Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of eager young inventors-the kind that seemed to flock about him all his life-he set to work in a barn hayloft, trying, testing, failing, then trying, testing and failing again. It was part of his system: "You cannot start to do a new thing and hit it right the first time." But within eight months, by disregarding all the rules of the day about electric motors and storage batteries, he had developed the self-starter. Cadillac bought it, and within a year car sales were doubled...
...Hardest hit of all were the Communists, who lost more than 2,000,000 of the 5,500,000 votes they got in 1956. Their defeat was furthered by adroit gerrymandering and the coalitions that non-Communist parties formed against strong Communist candidates. Party Boss Maurice Thorez squeaked back into the Assembly, but his wife, Jeanette Vermeersch, was beaten by a Gaullist in one of Paris' "reddest" districts; so, too, was tubby Jacques Duclos, the party's No. 2 man and parliamentary leader. Of the 150 seats won in 1956, the Communists held on to only ten. This...
...assaulted the recording studios. Among them: twelve-year-old Gabriele (Clonisch), whose Schokoladeneis (Chocolate Ice Cream) has already sold 250,000 copies, although she started singing into her businessman-father's dictating machine only a few months ago; and nine-year-old Brigitte (Reisberger), who has a big hit called Lieber Pappi, Mach Mai Sonntag (Dear Daddy, Take a Day Off). Recording firms these days will audition any subadolescent, and with good reason: teen-agers account for the bulk of German record buying. Mourns Munich Disk Jockey Werner Götze, a ripe 33: "With their clannish addiction...
...their highball glasses. Thus a casual libation might become a miniature marine disaster. ("Hey, Louie! Watch the Titanic go down in the drink.") If the talents of the movie's producers come close to matching the tastelessness of its promoters, A Night to Remember should be a smash hit...
...Chinese artillery, which has lobbed 575,000 shells into Quemoy since August, has posed nightmare problems to Director Tsao Yi-fan, 48, and Editor Huang Pang-fu, 35. Three months ago Cheng Ch'i's two-story headquarters in downtown Quemoy City took a direct hit, but the paper came out next day right on schedule. Subscribers on the outlying islands-Little Quemoy, Tatan and Erhtan-must now depend on irregular deliveries by carrier frogmen. On Quemoy proper, delivery boys peddle the paper by jeep and bicycle and on foot, generally get the job done by midmorning despite...