Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, on the ornate library table once owned by William Tecumseh Sherman, perches a model of the Oozlefinch Bird, a wondrous creature indeed. This week, as the Congress returns to a Washington torn between the costly requirements of national defense and the allure of economy in an election year, and as a high-powered Rockefeller committee reports on the faults of the nation's defense organization, the Secretary of Defense need be even more wondrous than the Oozlefinch. For an appraisal of Neil Hosier McElroy, sixth U.S. Secretary of Defense, see NATIONAL...
Concerning your Art spread and the Korean Mounted Horseman: I am sure that John Tenniel used it as a model for his illustration of the White Knight in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass. It looks as though it has the "bunches of carrots and fire-irons and many other things" hanging from the saddle...
...make door handles." Instead, he floated bond issues on the private market, got loans from U.S. and Swiss banks, used Marshall Plan money to buy machine tools and presses in the U.S. From the rubble rose some of the most highly automated factories in Europe. Renault also became a model of enlightened management. It put in a profit-sharing plan, and was the first French company to give all workers a paid three-week vacation. In 1955 Renault routed the Communists for good by signing a contract with non-Communist unions calling for an automatic 4% wage boost every year...
...Jere Cooper (see MILESTONES), followed normal seniority rules, but still it was a reward that no colleague could deny Wilbur Mills. In 19 years as a Congressman, Lawyer Mills thoroughly studied his economics, got a reputation as a spokesman for low-income groups and small business, yet is a model of prudence with his constituents' tax dollar...
Marriage Revealed. Sam Spiegel, 55, Austrian-born Hollywood producer (The Bridge on the River Kwai, On the Waterfront); and Betty Benson, 27, onetime model; he for the third time, she for the first; on Nov. 26, in Manhattan...