Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cinemacaroon Brigitte (And God Created Woman) Bardot, who won a 1957 Victoire (France's Oscar), proved the infinite ingenuity of the French in inventing new human relationships. She offered to be the godmother of a baby girl born to her ex-husband, Director Roger Vadim, and a Danish model one day after he and Brigitte were divorced...
...under piles of paper, often had to whistle in the janitors to dredge his work out of the wastepaper. But somehow Allen got his job done, e.g., the laminar-flow air foil of the P-51 fighter of World War II, a supersonic freeflight wind tunnel in which a model plane is fired into a blast...
...same unevenness showed up in Detroit's output, which is being closely geared to expected sales. General Motors, which took a drubbing in the 1957 model year, is coming back fast, this month will produce 310,000 autos v. 280,000 for December 1956. Last week Chevrolet scheduled production of 46,400 cars, which would be an alltime weekly production record for the division. Although Ford insists that its sales are up, it has cut its production to 26% of the industry's total v. 31% for the first eleven months, is laying off about 5,000 production...
...reasons for the industry's cutbacks is the fact that as of Dec. i, the latest count, an unwieldy backlog of 1957 model's-some 90,000 cars-was still on hand. They pushed the total of dealers' unsold cars up to 510,505 v. 398,243 on Dec. i last year. With those sobering statistics in mind, the industry last week also slashed projected first-quarter output -by 5.6% of production originally scheduled...
Convertible TV. The first TV receiver that can be converted from a console or a table model into a portable was announced last week by Sylvania Electric Products Inc. The 21-in. model is transformed by removing an entire unit from the larger console, placing the console's detachable speaker into a special compartment in the smaller circuit, plugging into any electrical outlet. Price: $229.95 to $379.95. Neat Meat. A new method of packaging frozen meat so that it can be kept for a year or refrozen after defrosting is being introduced by Wrigley supermarkets of Detroit.' After...