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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Making Them Real. The key factor behind Revell's success is the models' authenticity. To achieve it, Revell employs an intelligence network in 70 countries where the company's models are sold. When Revell decided to produce the then-secret Russian Yak-25, a jet fighter (nickname: the Flashlight), it collected photos and details from overseas clients, got everything but the plane's landing gear. Relying on their study of other Red aircraft, Revell's engineers designed the Yak's landing gear as they figured the Russians would. Four months later, an official Soviet...
Getting current U.S. weapons into model production sometimes is just as hard. Revell engineers hunted for information and photos so diligently for the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter model that when Revell forwarded its drawings to the company for approval, they were too authentic; a secret stamp was slapped on them until the Air Force cleared vital details a month later. For the Russian T-34 tank model, Revell badgered the Israeli army into sending drawings and details of Soviet T-34s the Egyptians had abandoned in the Sinai desert...
Nixon's first gain: warm applause from the Pilgrims, a stilling of press criticism down to Beaverbrook press notes about his "Hollywood-style G-men" (he had two Secret Service men with him), about the "22-ft." length of his Cadillac...
...hoping to get Liberia's support. But that old pol was not eager to join such vigorous upstarts. He called federation "unrealistic and Utopian." The leaders of the British colony of Nigeria, one of the richest and largest (pop. 35 million) territories on the Guinea coast, make no secret of their irritation at Nkrumah's ambitions. "Nkrumah." Federal Prime Minister Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa said recently, "cannot expect the rest of Africa to dance around...
...blouses, push wire carts through the aisles of bright supermarkets, squeeze cellophane-wrapped loaves of Bimbo bread and Bimbollos (rolls). Husbands buy bottles of the new, high-quality tequila (from the modernized distilleries in the town of Tequila, 35 miles away) and Sangrita, a tequila chaser made of a secret formula of tomato juice, lime juice, orange juice, sugar, salt, pepper, chilies and spices. The couples watch carefully as automatic cash registers whir up the week's purchases in toothpaste, carrots and dehydrated pimento soup - and then they stop by the Laundromat to pick up the washing...