Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem," says Johnson, "was to match the old building with something that neither dominated it nor was just a tail to it; something that wasn't a copy and yet followed the function." He took three years to brood before the public got its first look at his model. It turned out to be neither modern nor Renaissance but massively medieval, a bastion for books that seemed to echo H. H. Richardson's Trinity Church across Copley Square. But Johnson had bound his new addition with the old through a variety of formal devices: a common cornice line...
Clearly, more of the same bosomy look lay ahead. Jo Hughes, who organizes fashion showings for Bergdorf Goodman, ordered up a completely new string of girls to model the store's clothes. The girls this time, she promised, would be "much more chesty...
GOLDBERG: First let me say this what I find lacking in your question, if I may say so is a very simple element. A failure to point out that the regime in the North is not an exact model of parliamentary democracy and free election, and that is a violation of the Geneva courts, which calls, for free elections both ways. Now the freest elections that I am aware of that have been held have been the elections of the constituent assembly which was attended by about the same proportion of South Vietnamese that participated in our National elections, under...
...standards, which will affect 1968 model cars, were developed from a preliminary list of 23 safety requirements issued by the safety agency chief, Dr. William Haddon Jr., early last December. At that time, Haddon invited the automakers' written comments-and got some public blasts as well. The rules, said Henry Ford, were "unreasonable, arbitrary and technically not feasible," and might even force some plants to close down. For most of last month, Detroit's experts argued their case in Haddon's Washington office. Even the State Department, sensitive to foreign charges that the standards would merely...
...tire-endurance, braking and weight-supporting standards, were suspended pending further research. The third-headrests to reduce whiplash neck injuries-was put off mainly because the industry cannot as yet produce enough to equip all cars. One major concession, provided for foreign manufacturers who do not follow the U.S. model-changeover routine, was to delay the effective date of the standards four months...