Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, up for parole, Model Prisoner Corpier gave his parole board a jolt. Though he had a job waiting for him, he said, he did not want to be sprung until he had trained at least one student to take over his course. As a matter of fact, he was not only willing to pass up future paroles; he would, if necessary, stay until his term ended in 1959 and "the warden kicks me out." Corpier had a compelling reason for such a decision: if he could prepare his students to qualify for FCC licenses, they would surely find...
Making its first big drive into the U.S.market, Italy's Fiat showed off a line of seven cars in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week. The star: Fiat's tiny bug-shaped Model 600 Standard, which is priced in the U.S. at $1,298. Fiat's other models range from a two-seater 90-m.p.h. sports convertible (U.S. price: $2,498) to a six-seater combination truck-station-wagon ($2,069). The company's U.S. sales goal is 30,000 in 1957 v. about 125 that trickled in last year. Fiat's Manhattan...
...academic spurs-and his first crack at public service-by specializing in industrial problems, notably the elimination of St. Louis' then-notorious smog. In the late '303, while serving a stint as smoke commissioner, he drafted and helped fight through to victory the city's model smoke ordinance. (His solution: cut down on the amount of volatile material used in industrial fuel.) Named chairman of Washington University's department of mechanical engineering in 1942, he kept serving political stints, e.g., as head of a freeholder committee that drafted a modern city charter...
...behind Iron Curtain will unveil low-cost American fashions at Poznan International Fair in Poland this June. To ill-clad satellite housewives, Manhattan's Ohrbach's will display $600 wardrobe for family of four, emphasize synthetic fabrics with prices indicated to underscore U.S. bargains. Polish mannequins will model the styles...
Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, emeritus, has proposed that the Harvard and M.I.T. schools of design join forces in planning and constructing a model community of homes and industries in order to demonstrate the practical and aesthetic advantages of careful city-planning...