Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them were built by Mrs. Francis Glessner Lee, a wealthy widow from Chicago, and a cabinet maker she hired. Although the cases are permanently sealed shut to protect the contents, Mrs. Lee insisted that every one be a working model, with miniature doors that open and shut, lights that go on and off, windows that go up and down. Each of the studies shows the victim and his surroundings in exact scale, one inch to the foot, and they are accurate down to the smallest detail, even to the wool stockings that Mrs. Lee knitted herself...
...first glance, they seem an unlikely combination. Slim, suave, well-tailored Rowland Evans, 45, is the very model of a cosmopolitan correspondent. Swarthy, slangy, excitable Robert Novak, 35, often acts like a Chicago police reporter. Yet professionally, the two men complement each other perfectly; they have merged their talents in a joint political column, "Inside Report," that has a faster-growing readership than any of its competitors. Begun in 1963 with only 35 clients, "Inside Report" is now carried by 135 newspapers...
Since September, all automakers have been required by law to report possible defects to the new National Traffic Safety Agency, whose director. William Haddon, has the authority to make the reports public-if he sees fit. Last week Haddon saw fit: he announced that more than 500,000 late-model cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles have been recalled by domestic and foreign manufacturers to check on some 40 potential flaws. These statistics were deceptive, and Ford Division General Manager Donald Frey, for one, was quick to note that probably no more than 5% of the recalled cars actually had anything...
CHRYSLER: A possible missing brake component and door-latch problems on an unspecified number of '67 Plymouth Valiants and Dodge Darts; possible brake defects on '66 Plymouth Belvederes; carburetor difficulties in model-440 engines of various lines; imperfect wheels on '67 Dodge trucks...
A.M.C. was particularly hard hit in the 1966 model-year slump: its U.S. auto sales were down 20% , to 272,000 cars, against an average 4% for the Big Three. Gamely, the company found reassurance in the fact that the deficit was "substantially lower than anticipated." Said President Roy Abernethy: "We've reached the bottom, from the standpoint of the current slide." Possibly - although, despite high hopes for its jazzed-up '67 models, mid-November A.M.C. sales ran 13.5% below the same period last year. Apparently trimming his own expectations a bit, Chairman Evans declared that "there...