Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irishman Jim Downey's, a celebrated steak house, the light came from Jewish yahrzeit candles, normally used to commemorate the dead. The New York Hilton used 30,000 candles during the long night. So great was the demand that Ajello's candle shop in midtown sold fancy bayberry models at $7.50 a pair?though there were no takers for the 90-lb., hand-dipped model for $150. To make the occasion complete, Mrs. Anthony Ajello, wife of the candlestick maker, had a baby boy in the midst of the blackout?by candlelight, of course...
...Force and NASA investigators offered a tentative explanation for the failure of an Agena rocket to soar into orbit as a target for the spacecraft Gemini 6. Looming unexpectedly out of the complex vocabulary of modern missilery, the Agena's trouble sounded as old-fashioned as a Model-T. The Agena's engine, said the scientific detectives, had backfired...
Singer decided that the ballpoint pen had become so common that Scripto's $1.98 model was overpriced, abolished it in favor of a wider-selling...
Died. Florence Pritchett Smith, 45, wife of former U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1957-59) and Kennedy Friend Earl E.T. Smith, onetime Powers model (at age 14), radio commentator (This Is Florence Pritchett), TV panelist (Leave It to the Girls) and, most recently, New York Journal-American food columnist; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...even greater blow to Boston's Negroes was the defeat of School Committee Member Arthur Gartland, the one board member who Negroes felt was sympathetic to their cause. - >In New Haven, Democratic Mayor Richard C. Lee, 49, the brains and muscle power behind the city's model $390 million urban-renewal program, handily won his seventh consecutive two-year term, beating his Republican challenger 33,992 to 17,099. - In Akron, home town of G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss, Republicans captured the mayor's office for the first time since 1951. The victor: John S. Ballard...