Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prediction on total car sales: 7,000,000 next year v. the expected 6,400,000 total for 1959. Chrysler set no prices on its full-sized models, which retained the low, long look, with tail fins still the distinguishing feature. For its V-8 engines, Chrysler has developed a new ram induction system which provides enough extra boost for passing at speeds from 35 to 75 m.p.h. that the use of "kickdown," or passing gears, is unnecessary. For the new Dodge Dart and Plymouth, Chrysler has developed a new six-cylinder engine which, as in the Valiant, will...
...world's largest bowling alley-112 lanes covering a space as long as two football fields-was completed last week in Edison, N.J., by two brothers, Thomas Jr. and James Swales. Said Tom Swales: "You practically need binoculars to see from one side to the other." What the bowlers also saw was the latest sample of how the bowling boom has changed the once smoky, dusty, somewhat disreputable hangout for men into a family and community recreation center. Edison Lanes not only offers special promotions for women bowlers and cut rates for children, it also opens its meeting rooms...
...urged a sweeping reorganization of the functions of the nation's regulatory agencies to rid them of detail and give them more independence. He also suggested less CAB control of the airlines, more freedom to make their own decisions on strictly business matters. Wrote Hector: "The agencies are long on judicial form and short on judicial substance." He advised transferring the CAB's policy-making functions to an executive department and setting up a court of experts with the powers of adjudication to decide major cases and hear appeals from administrative decisions. Concluding his valedictory, Hector warned that...
...Hake's second in command, Lieut. Dolfus, and Lieut. Sulgrave, the commander's young aide, life on the island is a combination of boredom and premonition of disaster. The disaster is not long in coming; half a dozen enlisted men and Sulgrave are the only survivors. It is then that the Negroes get a grisly, ironic revenge on the commander. Looking for his body, they find only the head and shoulders. Into the improvised coffin go arms and legs, black and white, sufficient to provide a corpse for the military funeral Commander Hake is to get back...
...novel by Nobel Prize Winner Pasternak," trumpeted the gaily colored cover. Actually, the book was neither new nor a novel. Scarcely longer than a long short story, The Last Summer was first published in Leningrad 25 years ago, some two decades before Doctor Zhivago was written. Last year, with a shorter introduction (soso) and in the same translation (first-rate), the story appeared in the U.S. in a collection of poems and articles entitled Noonday 1. It sold an unexciting 10,000 copies. With a bustling campaign of come-on ads and a first printing of 250,000, Avon hopes...