Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good friend of the late Nuri Pasha of Iraq, who always greeted him with the shout: "Hey Look!" Saudi Arabia's King Saud once gave him a wristwatch-though, since TIME'S cover was far from unreserved praise, "I only got the airline-hostess model." King Hussein of Jordan once took Mecklin flying in his plane, with an unexpected thrill at the end when the young King was barely able to get a stuck nosewheel down...
...wildest of Marx Brothers starts. In charge was one Jack Lotto, modestly describing himself as "a former ace reporter for the I.N.S.," who set up shop in a three-room Sheraton-Carlton press headquarters. The headquarters featured free whisky and "Press Receptionist" Bea Duprey, a toothsome Boston model who seemed mostly interested in making sure reporters got her measurements right (35-22-35). In a ridiculous midnight affair, Lotto & Co. soon caught a couple of snoopers listening in with a microphone and a tape recorder from the room next door...
AUTO-LABELING LAW, signed by President Eisenhower, provides that each 1959 car carry tag telling model name, final assembly point, means of delivery to dealer, manufacturer's suggested retail price for auto and extras...
...rust. But the biggest advantage of all is in performance. In recent tests with two cars identical except for a difference of 400 lbs. in weight, the lighter car accelerated and decelerated from 20% to 25% faster. In terms of gas consumption G.M.'s aluminum-engined 1960 model is expected to get considerably better mileage than the 1958 Chevy. And as more and more aluminum parts are added, U.S. motorists may yet see that happy day when they can combine the U.S. liking for smooth-riding big cars with fuel mileage of 25 to 35 miles per gallon...
Born. To Dovima (real name: Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba), 30, lissome (5 ft. 8 in., 115 Ibs.) Manhattan high-fashion model ($75 an hour), and Immigration Department Official Alan Murray, 31: their first child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Alison. Weight...