Word: rectangularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Buhlie's exploit caused something of an uproar at Ford, the pictures certainly proved that the Mustang, which goes into mass production this week at Ford's River Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, is indeed handsome. It has a rectangular, Ferrari-like front grille and a low, racy silhouette, but its most attractive feature is probably its price-less than $2,500. At any rate, Buhlie was not letting the matter disrupt his own plans. A few days after he unmasked the Mustang, he and Barbara Monroe Posselius, 18, were married in Grosse Pointe. The happy couple...
...biggest producer, expects them almost to double this year. Though Zenith, Sylvania and National Video Corp. have lately joined RCA as manufacturers of color TV tubes, high demand has made for a shortage of tubes that is likely to continue through 1964. Next year RCA will bring out a rectangular tube that will do away with the cropped corners on the screen and make the TV cabinet shallower. Portable color TVs are due in about three years. Looking toward the late 1960s or the 1970s, manufacturers are also working on practically priced home microwave ranges that bake a potato...
...REZONING-which is often the same as ungerrymandering. In San Francisco, mostly white Grant School lies near mostly Negro Emerson School in a rectangular area cut by a horizontal attendance line; made vertical, the line would integrate both schools. New York City's school zoning boss, Assistant Superintendent Francis A. Turner, a Negro, is such a skilled mixmaster that balanced schools are rapidly increasing...
Luxurious Elegance. Cars park in the concrete forest, eliminating the need for an outside parking lot that can disfigure any building. The slab itself has two rectangular holes cut into it, one for beauty, the other for function. The first creates a courtyard that gives the feeling of luxurious elegance. The second surrounds a two-story steel and concrete laboratory, which, aside from connecting doors, is structurally not a part of the slab. It rests on the ground-a building within a building, so subtly encased that it in no way intrudes on the overall design...
...sells 55% of all the color TV sets and almost all of the color tubes used by other manufacturers, is spending $11.6 million to expand its plant at Lancaster, Pa. Challenging RCA with new competition, Motorola last week introduced a compact color tube that creates a 23-in.-long rectangular picture but is 5½ in. shallower than the RCA tube. Motorola sets with the new tube will begin...