Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five years, despite overwhelming problems and violent criticism, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has been trying resolutely to "get out of the Indian business." Its twofold program: 1) a slow process of withdrawal of federal services to the Indians as tribes become self-dependent, and 2) relocating willing Indian families in the cities. In a measure, the bureau has succeeded; three tribes are now independent, and about 20,000 Indians have been moved off reservations into cities and towns. Last week in Claremore, Okla., the home of the late Will Rogers (who was part Cherokee), 205 Indians representing...
...there an international crisis? Stalin was slow to commit Russia to foreign adventures, slower still to back down once he had committed Soviet prestige. Nikita Khrushchev with one brash threat against Turkey had launched a war scare that set the whole world's nerves on edge. Last week, bouncing into a reception at (of all places) the Turkish embassy, he called the crisis off between gulps of champagne: "Let him be damned who wants war. There will...
...early hours of the next morning, several observation teams had reported sightings, but they were contradictory as to both time of sighting and direction of the object, and later that day Whipple conceded that they must have been "slow-moving meteors" taken as the satellite by enthusiastic spotters...
...Classic Cars. The paramount importance of style, so evident in 1958 models, was slow to make itself felt on automakers. In the years when buying, driving and tinkering with the family car were a proud male prerogative (and when most car owners could still distinguish a carburetor from an oil filter), the big sales features were dependability and technical improvements-plus the giddy growth of the U.S. itself. Every new road opened up a new market; every new mechanical advance-hydraulic brakes, balloon tires, steel to replace wood and leather-brought the new buyers flocking to Detroit's door...
...first full-fledged styling section, and in the process gave G.M. the style lead for more than 20 years. Earl pioneered the rounded body for mass-production cars, slanted windshields, fenders that projected over the doors, the hardtop convertible. Despite G.M.'s success others were slow to follow. Even as late as 1948, Chrysler President K. T. Keller hotly defended his high-hat, high-topped, old-fashioned cars: "There are parts of this country, containing millions of people, where both the men and the ladies are in the habit of getting behind the wheel, or on the back seat...