Word: puts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delinquency and other topics that lead them toward a clearer understanding of themselves. Boys get into trouble, one subject stated, "because they have no money and no one will give them any money so they go out and steal and so it ends up into trouble and they get put in jail." Another subject noted, "In my short period attending here so far, I have never since I can remember, felt greater mentally...
...from his experimental summer house is one of Aalto's favorite projects-the small town hall for Saynatsalo (pop. 3,000). "I wanted to make it a town center, a building that would gather in people," Aalto explains, making a gathering-in motion with his arms, "so I put the garden inside, and then the inside is no longer neutral. I lifted the building up to make a vertical difference between the traffic in the street and the people meeting inside. The street is full of the gases of automobiles. We lift up the human being and put...
...Cover) Not since Henry Ford put the nation on wheels with his model T has such a great and sweeping change hit the auto industry. Out from Detroit and into 7,200 Chevrolet showrooms this week rolled the radically designed Corvair, first of the Big Three's new generation of compact cars. Smaller and simpler than Detroit's chromespun standards, the Corvair is like no other model ever mass-produced in the U.S.; its engine is made of aluminum and cooled by air, and it is mounted in the rear. To Chevrolet's folksy, brilliant General Manager...
...This Is It." Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the Corvair is the way Cole designed it and sold the idea to General Motors. He put the Corvair wheels in motion way back in 1952, a most unlikely time. Detroit then was riding a crest of chrome, and it looked as if anyone who bucked the trend to bigness would get honked right out of the industry. Henry Kaiser's chromeless little Henry J. was a flop. Romney's Ramblers were losing money. Just a few years before, Chevy had started to tool for a compact model...
...Italian Line for New York-Mediterranean service. Two 35,000-ton luxury ships will each have accommodations for 1,600 passengers, cruise at 26.5 knots to Italy in seven days, one day faster than the line's 33,500-ton Leonardo da Vinci, which will be put into service next summer on the transatlantic...