Word: model
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-founded reports were finally confirmed. Ford Motor Co. announced last week that it will introduce a small or compact car during the 1960 model year, "barring changes in the market or other circumstances." Thus it became the first of the Big Three to go on record, though crash programs of all the companies for small cars have been an open secret for weeks (TIME...
...bring home to Mother. His apartment on Sparks St. is not arty, just a little crowded. Books and records are stacked around the room and on the mantelpiece stands bric-a-brac suggestive of his work: a rubber "dead hand" (I Hold Your Hand in Mine), a skeleton, a model of the "World Tree" in which he has stuck a dustmop, and a flowery piece of crockery labeled "Opium" (The Old Dope Peddler). He has a much pleasanter voice than his record would suggest...
...drop was largely strike caused), the big car surprise of 1959 is the fast pace of the skillfully restyled Ford against the flashy new Chevy. With a strike at G.M. to give it an initial lead, Ford took off running, has sold something like 500,000 cars for the model year so far, and still leads by 30,000 units. Chevy is creeping up, but it will have to do better than February's slim margin to hold its 1958 title of No. 1 seller...
...look at how the U.S. lives, the exhibition is the result of a cultural exchange agreement under which the Soviet Union plans to set up its own exhibit in Manhattan's Coliseum for eight weeks beginning June 16. The Russians will pack their show with manufactured products, model classrooms, scientific instruments (including Sputnik models), giant topographical maps, displays of collective farms, literature and Soviet sports. Some 50 English-speaking young Russians will act as guides...
...cost of more than $3.6 million, is expected to attract 3½ million visitors, who will pay a few rubles each for admission. Nearly 170 U.S. firms from 19 states have already contributed products, including musical instruments, 10,000 books, office equipment, a "miracle" kitchen, and a model U.S. house split down the middle so that Russians can walk between the halves. Two features particularly aimed at improving Russian knowledge of the U.S.: seven movie screens simultaneously showing different images on the same subject (e.g., seven views of supermarkets, highway cloverleafs), with a commentary in Russian; an IBM RAMAC brain...