Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tough Realism. Chief Schrotel set about remaking Cincinnati's white-hatted police force with an approach that was-and still is-tough and realistic. "The reins," he says, "are real tight." Overweight cops are suspended by Schrotel, himself a trim handballer. Men who show up in sloppy uniforms risk being sent home-and docked a day's pay. Schrotel lost his fight in the city council against moonlighting by his men, but did get approval of his strict code for outside work, including the requirement that the pay be at least $3 an hour...
...horizontally barred grille and a squared-off rear deck give them a more massive look, Chevy's big cars remain unchanged in actual dimensions. Chevrolet's high-performance sports car. the Corvette, and the rear-engined Corvair compact also remain basically unchanged except for minor additions of trim...
American Motors. The once boxy Ambassador and Classic now have sleek, sculptured roof lines and rounded-off rear fenders and trunk. Except for minor trim, the low-priced American is outwardly unchanged, but it offers an optional "E-stick" gearshift that enables the driver to change gears without a clutch and costs only one-third as much as an automatic transmission...
...have come a trio of fast-moving smaller producers, who now hold 13% of the market: Anaconda Aluminum, Harvey Aluminum and Ormet Corp., a subsidiary of Olin Mathieson. At the same time, the plastics industry has developed new products to compete with aluminum in pleasure boats, packaging and auto trim. And steel has started to offset aluminum's inroads by bringing out lighter, tougher and cheaper alloys and tin plates...
...discount outlets, from Seattle to Miami, by year's end. Long since recovered from the trauma of his ambassadorship to Ceylon-he won derisive headlines in 1957 for his inability to remember at a Senate confirmation hearing the name of Ceylon's late Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike-trim, Texas-born Max Gluck has found a cut-rate way to expand rapidly in discounting: he leases departments within established discount houses...