Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hold Aloof. Academy President Nesmeyanov seems the very model of the independent scholar and gracious host. But the academy's general secretary is a cop type named Topchiev, whose job it is to keep the "party character" alive within the academy. Through Topchiev, the party still belabors scientists with demands that they "must not hold aloof from the ideological struggle," and if deviating intellectuals no longer disappear from the face of the earth, they can still disappear from the pages of Vestnik. After accepting an invitation to The Netherlands recently. Physicist Landau asked if he might bring along...
Beirut was slow to rise. But in the northern Moslem stronghold of Tripoli, crowds poured from a mosque to pillage, smash and burn every unshuttered shop. Goaded by agitators, the mob gutted the U.S. Information Agency library; some seized a model of the Vanguard satellite from a desk and kicked it about the street in a grotesque soccer game. In the city's chief square, troops fired. Ten died...
Instead of investing in one expensive "lifetime" watch, more and more people now buy inexpensive but serviceable watches, throw them away when they need repairs -or a more attractive model hits the market. Sales of low-priced ($15 and under) watches climbed from 6,000,000 five years ago to 8,876,000 last year, now hold 52% of the market. The company leading the march: U.S. Time Corp., whose $6.95 to $17 Timex watches have captured almost 23% of the total market...
Many a company has helped along the restoration boom. New Jersey's Scandinavia Belting Co. still makes transmission linings for the Ford Model A and Model T. In the East, at least three major wheelwrights make wheels for the oldsters. Western Auto Supply. Sears. Roebuck and Montgomery Ward market parts for the Model T. Firestone Tire & Rubber sells several thousand antique tires a year, priced up to $67.55 each (for the Stanley Steamer and Stutz...
...Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 28, eldest son of the Dominican dictator, got them. At a Los Angeles foreign-car agency, where he bought a $12,000 Mercedes-Benz to replace his old Cadillac, Ramfis shipped off another $5,500 Mercedes to Zsa Zsa and an $8,500 model to Kim. Later he picked up the tab for a $17,000 chinchilla coat that Zsa Zsa had ordered. Calling himself "one of the wealthiest young men in the world," Ramfis termed the gifts "surprises...