Word: modelled
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First Capital Debate. When the man who is now Neuberger's senior colleague, Wayne Morse, first visited Washington in 1925, his arrival was less publicized, but in a way, even noisier. One jungle-hot afternoon a weathered Model T lurched down the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue with a rattle and a clatter that Calvin Coolidge, 50 yards away in the White House, might easily have heard. Its hood was propped open to keep the motor cool, its rear end listed to one side under an uneven burden of piled-up duffle in the back seat, and its muffler...
UNTIL this century, nearly every American statesman desired to be thought a conservative: Calhoun did, and so did Lincoln. [In this century] the American, vaguely discontented with the shape of society, took for his model liberalism: he imagined that it was some sort of the-middle-way policy, happily splitting the difference between individualism and collectivism. Thus amorphous in its beginning, twentieth-century American liberalism has become almost impossible to describe, embracing a curiour congeries of people. The word "liberal," in such circumstances, has lost any real meaning. The liberal's distorted myth of private self-sufficiency...
Faster & Faster. Stapp's first sled ride was seven years ago. The sled, a one-rocket job, got up to 90 m.p.h. and coasted to an easy stop. Later rides were not so gentle. More powerful rockets made the new-model sleds start like frightened jackrabbits and pushed them along the rails at the speed of fighter planes. Stapp rode them all. He suffered the acceleration forces as they speeded up and the even greater forces of deceleration as the water brake (long trough of water engaging a scoop on the sled) brought them to a wrenching stop. Faster...
...horizon was not cloudless. Industry planned to spend about 5% less ($20.7 billion) on new plants and equipment than in 1954, largely because of a 40% spending cut by automakers from the record $1.3 billion new-model outlay in 1954. Some industries, e.g., textiles and coal, were still in trouble. The farm problem was still tremendous. Though Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson won a notable victory in his fight for flexible supports-and farmers, like investors, seemed willing once again to take a chance-the surplus commodities held by the Government totaled $6.6 billion at year...
...Mutual Friend. Now 52, Dick Daley is a modern model of the machine boss, well-scrubbed and honest. He grew up in the "back of the yards" neighborhood on the South Side, got a law degree from De Paul University, became minority leader of the state senate. When Adlai Stevenson was elected governor in 1948, he appointed Daley state director of revenue. When Jack Arvey's ulcers became bad enough, Daley took over as Democratic county chairman. If he can win the mayoralty, Daley will probably cast longing eyes on the governorship...