Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elected to the state senate in 1915, Harry Byrd led a bitter fight for pay-as-you-go road building as against bond financing, won in a referendum, carried on his model highway program after his election as governor in 1925. Governor Byrd pushed through a tough antilynch law, streamlined the state constitution. In the fight for adoption of his changes, he built the famed Virginia Democratic political organization that stands today as one of the nation's oldest and most successful-and Harry Byrd will continue to run it after his Senate retirement...
With a mixture of incredulity and nostalgic delight, Britons learned last week that staid St. John's Wood had sustained and harbored a liaison of Edwardian style right into the welfare-state era. In a London court, one Jacqueline Gray, a 41-year-old onetime model, sued 81-year-old Sir Strati Ralli, Bt. (family motto: "Keep to the straight path") for the return of jewelry worth $34,000. Miss Gray charged that Sir Strati had taken the jewelry from her to have it insured, and had refused to return...
While Beech still sticks to relatively high-priced planes, Cessna is moving all around, adding new planes to complement its five single-engined models ($9,000 to $16,850) and its twin-engined Model 310 ($60,000). In the future Cessna hopes to shine even brighter. One important project is Cessna's YH-41 light helicopter, now undergoing tests for the U.S. Army; eventually Cessna hopes to develop a vast commercial market. A second is jets. Last week Cessna landed another $10 million Air Force order for its 400-m.p.h. twin-jet T-37 trainer, booking production solidly...
Cessna 1 75, a medium-priced addition to the company's line of four-place, high-wing monoplanes. Cruising speed: 139 m.p.h. Price: about $11,000, midway between the lowest priced Model 172 and highest priced...
Married. Lyle (Skitch) Henderson, 40, goateed TV-radio bandleader (on the Steve Allen Show); and German-born Fashion Model Ruth Michaels, 28; both for the second time (his first: Faye Emerson); in Greenwich, Conn...