Word: modell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
William D. Roberts has provided the play with highly effective colonnade settings which, with alternations, serve as a study, an English park, a Spanish moor, and a hacienda. The grass in front of the stage, moreover, makes a perfect roadway for the introduction of Tanner's early-model automobile...
Sweden's Volvo auto group, aiming for 12,000 U.S. customers in 1957, also brought out a new model. The new Volvo (Latin for "I Roll") is a two-door family sedan with an 85-h.p. engine, a top speed of 95 m.p.h. Its U.S. price of $2,235 includes heater, defroster, whitewall tires...
Into the booming foreign-car sales race Italy's Fiat last week rolled its 116-in.-long, two-passenger "New 500" model, which it expects to start exporting to the U.S. this autumn. Fiat set an $800 price tag on the 500, hopes to accelerate its opening sales push in the U.S. (TIME, April 22), which sold 1,200 standard Fiats in the first two months...
Most foreign-car fans still prefer a larger, roomier model, such as West Germany's Volkswagen, Britain's Hillman Minx. Looking for a share of this market, France's Renault is plumping its racy (up to 75 m.p.h.), efficient (43 miles per gallon), economical (from $1,645) Dauphine. For American tastes Renault splashed the Dauphine with chrome trim, bolstered it with reinforced bumpers. U.S. reaction has been warm. Dauphine found 3,970 U.S. buyers in the first half of 1957, and second-half sales are accelerating so fast that Renault is now sending 140 Dau-phines...
...from which House Party resembles A Comedy of Errors. To the antediluvian Ames mansion at Pruitt's Landing, an "unspoiled" Long Island town, repairs the following partial cast of characters, some Ameses and some not: a superannuated dandy who is chauffeured about in a Hotchkiss landaulet; a Manhattan model; a frustrated young architect who works for Vahan Rabadab Associates ("All Rabadab buildings looked like banks of file cabinets with the drawers open"); a proletarian scowler ("No thanks, I don't usually bathe until Saturday night"); a divorcee with an "I'm-a-dangerous-woman voice cribbed from...