Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rising a majestic 19,565 feet into the clouds from the hot and dry plains of Tanganyika is snow-capped Kilimanjaro -the Mountain of Brightness in Swahili, a Hemingway setting to U.S. readers, the Seat of God to the Chagga tribesmen who live upon its lower slopes. Chagga legend has it that the great god Ruwa liberated mankind by smashing a vessel in which the first humans were imprisoned and scattering them over the mountainside. Actually, the 360,000 people of Chagga-land are a mixture of many tribes who for some five centuries have dwelt among Kilimanjaro...
...mutant genes which accumulate, are transmissible to the progeny, and are considered to be, in general, harmful to the human race." Doubling the present human mutation rate would probably not lead to the race's extinction. But the scientists felt little doubt that any increase at all will lower the average of human intelligence and life expectancy...
...Restyling is widespread (at a total cost of $750 million). Main points: The fins win; they stay, flaring upward and outward. Chrome will be a little less glittering, and hung on cars stretching wider, lower and longer than any before. ¶ The horsepower race is apparently over; increases will be generally small. ¶ That much talked about "Detroit small car?" At least a year away, though there may be a push on six-cylinder economy models...
...Masonic initiation. But it was an open secret that only Cadillac and Lincoln will be content with a minor facelift. Chevrolet has a completely new rear end. The rounded gull-wing tail is gone, replaced by outflaring V-shaped fins. General Motors' 1959 Chevy will also be lower, has a big increase in glass area, new grille and bumpers...
...Soto will have a forward-sloping hood, lower front fenders, new grille, bumpers and trunk lid. Dodge, Chrysler and Imperial will get much the same "dart" treatment...