Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVER since small foreign cars began to sell in the U.S. market-and ever since American Motors made its astonishing comeback with its compact car-motorists have wondered when and if the Big Three would bring out smaller cars. There were many reports out of Detroit and surreptitious pictures (left), but last week there were no longer any doubts. The Big Question: What will they look like and when will they come out? TIME'S Detroit bureau talked to dozens of auto executives, suppliers, tool and diemakers. Winnowing a mass of information, TIME this week puts together an accurate...
...Central African federation, so apparently did Southern Rhodesia's whites. In the last territorial election they gave a majority of their votes to the anti-Welensky Dominion Party, which wants to cut the territory loose from its predominantly black partners and turn it into a smaller version of the Union of South Africa...
...somewhat smaller degree of success in the recent K. of C. meet gave the varsity a warning of what may be coming later in the season. Yale was outstanding in both the one-mile and two-mile relays, in the former event handing the Crimson its first K. of C. loss in six years...
...interpreter with an Austrian ski manufacturer; Betsy became a fashion model for a German sportswear shop. Penny, a husky, 140-lb. blonde, excels in the downhill; Betsy, whose brown hair is streaked with silver strands to accord with the current vogue for fashion models, is smaller and more nimble, does best in the slalom. They have modeled themselves on the style of Austrian men ("Only the boys have the drive and aggressiveness we want to copy," says Betsy). But having mastered style, both tend to disregard it. Says Penny: "Sometimes, when I am trying to slow down, I look like...
...church. Said President James M. Symes: "I am disappointed." U.S. railmen have known for some time that the Pennsy is more anxious to merge than the Central, which has had its doubts about managing the $5.6 billion behemoth that would be formed by a merger. Meanwhile the seven smaller roads-Erie, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Reading, Delaware & Hudson, New York, Chicago & St. Louis, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western-that had huddled in October to discuss what to do in the face of a Central-Pennsy merger also dropped their own merger talks...