Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manley has another aim in making Jamaica a model Caribbean island. A start has already been made toward federation of Britain's Caribbean colonies (TIME, March 5), and Manley, who returned from London last week, envisions the day when all the colonies will be joined in a new British Commonwealth dominion. When that day comes (probably in 1958), Chief Minister Manley wants Jamaica to be the new nation's richest province-and, of course, its logical capital...
...needed at brand-new St. Paul's Church in The Hague was a statue of St. Paul. Rotterdam Sculptor Jan Vlasblom was commissioned to create a statue of the saint, to stand on a pedestal above the main entrance. But when Sculptor Vlasblom unveiled a full-sized clay model, the bishopric's Roman Catholic Liturgical Commission turned thumbs down. The clerics objected to a hugely exaggerated surplice that engulfed the saint's figure. It "will give superfluous occasion for wonder instead of admiration," complained the commission report. "Believers could never recognize this figure as their patron...
...Vanity. But at $7.50 apiece it was so expensive that its first commercial use was in hearing aids. In 1952 Sonotone brought out the first transistorized aid at $229.50; it swept the field, and the race was on. Today 99% of hearing aids are transistorized; Zenith has a model selling for $50. As transistor production climbed from 100,000 in 1952 to a rate last week of 9,000,000 a year, the price dropped to about $2 apiece. Though they are still more expensive than most vacuum tubes, transistors are nevertheless conquering market after market...
Strictly Stock. During the cutthroat N.A.S.C.A.R. competition, drivers and mechanics tried every trick in the book. Each car was supposed to be strictly a stock model, no different than those in the dealers' showrooms. Officials worked over time, tearing down winning cars in every time trial, probing and prying, measuring and checking to see that they had not been doctored in violation of the rules. In the "Flying Mile"* for passenger cars, for instance, officials had to disqualify four of Mauri Rose's fastest Chevvies because their fan belts just happened to break loose, a quadruple coincidence that...
...such mechanical coincidences, a bright red 1956 Chrysler 300-6, owned by Outboard Motor Manufacturer Carl Kiekhaefer and driven by last year's N.A.S.C.A.R. Champion Tim Flock, turned in the fastest flying mile of the unlimited displacement (over 350 cu. in.) class: 139.373 m.p.h. Chryslers of the same model ran the mile at least 10 m.p.h. slower. To get such spectacular performance out of his big (340 h.p.) car, Kiekhaefer kept his highly trained mechanics working for weeks at tuning the engine, test-driving the car, turning the tires down on a tire lathe until they were as bald...