Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William is betting heavily on a new, more expensive sports model: the fast, sporty Sunbeam-Talbot Alpine. First shown in the U.S. last April, the low-cut Alpine later clocked 120 m.p.h. in Belgium's Jabbeke "flying mile" run, and last month chalked up a perfect score in the grueling Alpine Rally endurance test (2,000 miles through 31 mountain passes, five countries). Its engine is basically the same as the Sunbeam-Talbot "90" that last year won the Royal Automobile Club trophy. In the export race, the Alpine and other Sunbeam-Talbots so far have been slow starters...
...impossible to escape the problem of God. When I have the time, I'll work out the formulae to be used on great occasions. We must have something perfect both in thought and in form...
Monet probably painted the picture in 1869, when he was a young man and a failure, living in abject poverty and painting in perfect joy. Renoir used to drop in at Bougival with a loaf of bread to keep Monet going. Five years later, Monet and his friends-Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley, among others-staged a group show of their work that the French public greeted with howls of scorn. One critic had dubbed the bunch Impressionists after the title of a Monet painting: Impression-Rising...
...federal payroll had been cut, and Government employees who were clearly bad security risks had been "swiftly expelled." Less dramatic but even closer to Ike's heart was the task of establishing mutual confidence between Congress and the Executive. This confidence, noted the President, "is not easy to perfect at a time when one great party, after 20 years of political life in the opposition, ousts another from office." Nonetheless, "both the executive and legislative branches have worked with patience and good will to insure that this government is not divided against itself...
...Television System Committee, a technical group representing most of the major manufacturers, the victory is RCA's. Its "dot sequential" color system lost out to CBS's noncompatible "field sequential" system in 1950, but a 1951 defense order halting color-set production gave the N.T.S.C. time to perfect its own method...