Word: outs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In their first months on the market, the Big Three's compact cars got off to a fast start. Wards Automotive Reports last week announced that compact-car sales for October totaled 86,244 units, or a hefty 16.4% of the overall auto market, compared to 5.6% in October...
Shown in France, the picture delighted the public, astonished the critics, won the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes. Part of its appeal, no doubt, derives from the timeless charm of the old legend itself, which Scenarist Jacques Viot has adapted simply and gracefully. Orpheus is a Rio streetcar conductor; Eurydice...
In Brazil, Director Camus soon ran out of money. He slept on the beach to save hotel bills, lived from meal to meal, worked from reel to reel. Down to his last $17, he was rescued by Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek, who told the army to get him...
She is, of course, an irrepressible capitalist ("The Rolls is the only sports car I will drive in a Russian blizzard"), shows dangerous bourgeois-individualistic tendencies by riding her tricycle on the frozen Baltic, and utters subversive observations ("Everybody watches everybody in Moscow"). But she makes up for it by...
As President, McKinley almost always expressed himself in sonorous platitudes, but never did he come closer to stating a political creed than in a speech made when he was running for Governor in 1891: "We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money" (what he meant was the sacredness of...