Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul, then Barbara Paul as a show-business title, then Bobo by the chic set she moved up to, the comely blonde had been married to Richard Sears Jr., a well-to-do Bostonian who went into the Foreign Service after the war. After first meeting the onetime model and bit actress in a New York restaurant, Win Rockefeller burbled: "I saw her and I knew I was gone." He was 35. The wedding took place at 14 minutes past midnight on Valentine Day, 1948. Their son was born the following September, and the next year they separated. Gossip columnists...
...subtlest melting process on the U.S. scene, the ethnic minorities (which together actually constitute the majority) greatly and constantly influence the Anglo-Saxon minority in culture, fashion, food and even philosophy. At the same time, the ethnic minorities continue to admire the Anglo-Saxon model. "The American's image of himself," says Professor Will Herberg of Drew University, "is still the Mayflower, John Smith, Davy Crockett, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln . . . and this is true whether the American in question is a descendant of the Pilgrims or the grandson of an immigrant from southeastern Europe." In politics, write Harvard...
...Massachusetts trial which vindicated Naked Lunch will probably serve as a model for future obscenity trials. Primarily because a number of well known and respected writers testified to the literary value of Naked Lunch, it was not judged obscene. In defense of Burrough's novel, Norman Mailer testified that "We are richer for the record; and we are more impressive as a nation because a publisher can print that record and sell it in an open bookstore, sell it legally." Mailer went on to say that there should be no censorship. Allen Ginsberg also testified to the novel's poetic...
...believe it," another model shouted into the phone. "Whatta line. These freshmen will use anything to get a girl in their room...
Time for Tooling. The prime complaint concerns the "lead time" necessary for making major changes. Unaccustomed to U.S.-style annual model changeovers, Europeans retool only every three or four years, sometimes let models run for ten years or more. "A change in models just to fulfill the annual change in safety standards," says a spokesman for Germany's Porsche, "would lead to bankruptcy." Ron P. Hickman, technical director of Britain's little Lotus Cars Ltd., says that "some items would take more like two years to introduce...