Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate for President of the U.S. in 1960, has his faults-but racial demagoguery has never been one of them. Under Chandler the number of integrated school districts in Kentucky rose to 92 (out of 217) by the end of the 1956-57 school year, and Louisville became a model of its kind. Last week seven more Kentucky districts began integration-including coal-mining Union County, where a Sturgis (pop. 2,300) mob last year turned away Negroes trying to enroll in high school...
...they sat in their quiet rooms, Dulles and Henderson considered Syria in the context of a body of evidence that Communist diplomacy, for all of Communism's interior weakness, was setting forth upon some showy new adventures. The Communists have proclaimed a test-model 3,500-mile missile, tested nuclear weapons, broken off months-old disarmament talks in London, sent light cruisers into the Mediterranean, shipped obsolete arms into Syria. Loy Henderson's specific point was that the Russians are so persistently brandishing the threat of force before impressionable Arabs that the U.S. has to convince the Arabs...
...record $7.9 billion by some 10%, and brisk retail sales proved that consumers still had money and were willing to spend it. But automobile production was down slightly for the year, and Chrysler of Canada announced that it would operate only one shift a day during the 1958 model year rather than two. Steel production was a little below last year's rate, and newsprint manufacturers last week announced plans to cut back. Reflecting a gloomier outlook for earnings and dividends, industrial stocks sagged...
FORD'S EDSEL is off to a fast start. On first sales day, company took orders for 6,649 cars, and more than 2,500,000 auto fans went to showrooms to view new model. Present production, level: more than...
...Russian car, the Zil, will go into production soon to replace the Packard-like Zis as the Reds' top luxury model. Billed as an all-Red design, the seven-passenger Zil still owes plenty to Detroit: two-tone colors, wrap-around windshield and bumpers, automatic shift. The price, though, is strictly Russian: 70,000 rubles...