Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cross carved out of pure crystal and weighing three pounds. No sly repayment of old wounds was intended (A great leader, De Gaulle once wrote, "only slightly tastes the savor of his revenge, because action absorbs him entirely"). Instead, removing his two-starred kepi, De Gaulle gave Churchill the standard French embrace of a peck on both cheeks...
...world. He has a good case. Canada's economy has spurted faster since World War II than Britain's or the U.S.'s. The nation's population has shot ahead 37% v. 25% for the U.S., 4% for Britain, 14% for France. Its standard of living outdistances every nation's but the U.S.'s. Full of such assertive confidence, Diefenbaker intends to champion Commonwealth trade and mutual aid-and he means that Canada will provide the aid. "The question which occupies us most urgently," he said in London, "is not whether we should help...
Lord Beaverbrook's Empire-thumping Evening Standard delightedly grumped: "To many in this country, it must seem regrettable that the movement to galvanize the Commonwealth should have sprung from Ottawa rather than London." By and large Britons were pleased at their cousin's bumptiousness; the Times headlined approvingly, CANADA'S RIGHT TO SHARE THE BURDEN...
...rest after winning the governorship of New York State, Nelson Rockefeller went to a country that looms large in his career. Venezuela is the home of Creole Petroleum Corp., most profitable affiliate of the Rockefeller-founded Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), and he once served on Creole's board. But Venezuelans rarely think of him as an oilman; instead, he is the single man who has striven hardest to raise the country's standard of living...
...Lincoln-Mercury showrooms this week, well-heeled auto buyers inspected the new $10,238 Mark IV Continental limousine. Priced nearly $3,000 above the top of the 1957 line, a $7,500 convertible, the Continental includes as standard equipment $2,044 worth of accessories and usually optional equipment. These range from a $25 chrome curb-guard molding, up through electric doorlocks ($59.15 for four doors) to dual radios ($152.70 apiece) and dual air conditioners ($440 apiece). When the retractable curved-glass partition between the front and back seats is up, passengers and chauffeur can listen to different radio programs...