Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year Argentina bought 25 subsonic Douglas A-4B fighters from the U.S. Chile promptly dashed out for more planes and was soon negotiating for the Hawker Hunters. Not to be outdone, Peru last week was discussing purchase of 16 Mach-2.1 English Electric Lightnings and a flock of advanced-model Hawker Hunters. Meantime, Venezuela was suddenly losing its love for its F-86 Sabre jets, which it bought from the U.S. five years ago. So it, too, was dickering-with Sweden for 20 Saab
Under Justin's guidance, Twiggy has become not just a model but an industry. Already he has helped her to set up Twiggy Enterprises, Ltd., of which he is a partner. Soon there will be Twiggy boutiques and a Twiggy line of clothes (first design: a belted hybrid toga and kimono), and negotiations are under way with a cosmetics house in Paris for a Twiggy perfume. For a career that began only nine months ago, such success is at the moment all too intoxicating, and Justin is keeping his fingers crossed. "I almost starved," says...
...sales tax enacted at his behest violated his 1962 campaign pledge, but he needed it to implement progressive programs. Rockefeller also bucked vociferous upstate-Republican opposition to push through New York's Medicaid program, an expansion of the 1965 Medicare Act on a statewide basis, which is a model for all states...
...small children, DeSalvo was a semiskilled factory hand and an over-skilled sex deviate. In 1961, he confessed that he was the "Measuring Man," who for more than a year had talked his way into the apartments of gullible women by claiming to be a representative of a model agency. He did not harm any of the women, but got his kicks from touching them while he took their measurements on the pretext that he was recruiting talent. He served eleven months-for attempted breaking and entering and assault and battery-before he was paroled...
McCormack was Massachusetts Attorney General from 1958 to 1962 and his work in creating the Division of Civil Rights, now a model for other states, also illustrates an imaginative approach to governmental problems. McCormack secured for the attorney general the right to bring complaints and legal actions against persons engaged in discrimination. This right is usually reserved to aggrieved persons, and in discrimination cases these are usually the very people who would be unable to stand court costs...