Word: modell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more bleak landscape of ambition. Ned is a cool, shrewd Organization Man, and Robert a hotheaded art-rebel type; as they grow up, Joe keeps score in their unending game of oneupmanship. One symbol of success that each plays off on the other is Myra Chetwynd, the dizzy-making model whom Robert and Ned take successively to the altar...
...boarding school called Pembroke Lodge, where his expenses were paid from an education fund set up by his father. Being shy and peculiar and no good at sports, he came in for plenty of ragging. Says Alec expressionlessly: "One was a most unprepossessing child." To amuse himself, he built model theaters and played imaginary parts. One day he tried out for the school play. The headmaster inspected the scrawny little chap and sadly shook his head. "You'll never make an actor, Guinness...
...Million Gamble. Fairchild risked $25 million to develop the plane, needs 200 orders to break even on its rising costs. Last week President Boutelle was almost halfway home, with 95 orders from 14 small feeder lines. The first production model is scheduled to be delivered to West Coast Airlines (which has ordered six) in June, to be hauling passengers by early September, thus beating Lockheed's bigger Electra as the first U.S.-built turboprop in scheduled operation. By year's end Fairchild hopes to have at least 40 planes, built under license from The Netherlands' Fokker...
...first day there, Gunther briskly informed a startled Intourist official that he had no intention of making only the rubbernecking rounds of collective farms and model factories. Boomed Gunther: "I want to see a really good lunatic asylum, an academy where young artists are trained, and a musician." He saw them-as well as ballets, church services and plays (including a "stunning" Macbeth). He foraged busily from Moscow's P.S. 151 to a children's nursery where they had never heard of diapers. He reached some of the top brass on the merry-go-round of diplomatic receptions...
...Moscow have ever passed the Soviet driving test. Among other things, you have to be approved by a panel of physicians, including an eye doctor, a cardiologist, a back specialist, and one who tests reflexes in the soles of your feet. You have to work out traffic problems with model cars on something that looks like a parchesi board, and prove that you can take apart and mount an engine...