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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The broad-faced driver has never before been a headliner: the low-slung car is operated on a shoestring. But Australian-born Jack Brabham and his Cooper-Climax are challenging-and beating-the world's biggest names this season in the exacting sport of Grand Prix road racing, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fast Out of the Turns | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

But most of Blue Denim will not quite wash. All the good intentions of Producer Charles Brackett fail to keep the picture from looking like a rerun of an old Studio One Summer Theater. It is too often stilted, static, unreal, and riddled with tasteless jokes and cliches that would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

No Polar Exits. When the doughnut-shaped Van Allen radiation belts were discovered (TIME, May 12. 1958), optimists predicted that unshielded space vehicles could avoid them by taking off on space voyages by way of the "holes"' over the polar regions. But the deadly, invisible streams of the new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death from the Sun | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

The chief executives of the three largest U.S. steel companies faced a task that was a mixture of. pride and embarrassment. With the steel union in its third week of a strike for higher wages, they went before reporters and microphones last week to announce the biggest sales and earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Embarrassment of Riches | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Churchill admits that his Lark is not the ultimate. One fault: the six-cylinder model is underpowered (he is beefing it up). He is not afraid of the Big Three's forthcoming compact cars. "They will have six-cylinder compact cars, but we have an eight," says he. S.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Man on a Lark | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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