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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Registry plans to revise the form of the letter later this spring, its provisions will remain substantially the same, according to Sarbanes. "The present system seems to be the best solution we can get," he explained...
Students planning to attend the first meeting of Economics 112a today will find to professor present--only a notice saying that they will be expected to attend the lectures of Ec 136, which started yesterday...
What will the new small cars be like? They will not be scaled-down or stripped-down versions of Chevies, Fords or Plymouths. They will be completely redesigned automobiles, offering almost the same comfort, convenience and even luxuries as present U.S. cars. While all the designing and other work on the new cars has been done in the deepest secrecy, details have been leaked out by tool-and diemakers and other suppliers. With this help, plus sneak shots of a Chevy model on the proving grounds, Motor Life, the auto trade magazine (TIME, Oct. 21, 1957), has put together...
...cars will be considerably shorter than present models, with wheelbases ranging from 106 to 113 in. The overhang of 1959-model U.S. cars will be reduced, thus cutting the overall length by 2 to 3 ft. The new cars will be rounded and tucked in. They will also be much lighter. Wide use of aluminum, coupled with a redesigning of thousands of individual parts from bolts to caps, will cut the overall weight to around 2,500 Ibs., almost one-third less than the weights of the 1959 Ford, Chevy and Plymouth. This in turn will mean...
Bovril & Euripides. This strange hero's private life is told with all the rhetorical flimflam of a Victorian romance, but with the shocking -or comic -difference that what should be the heroine is a boy. Except for this novelty, all the period's literary conventions are present. Crabbe's heterodoxy is an "alabaster" youth named Kemp, as "pure as a moonstone," whose hair had turned white the month after he was sent down from Oxford (for an unspecified offense). Reduced to the martyrdom of earning his keep as a telegraph messenger, Kemp goes blind. Crabbe installs...