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Word: vespa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auto and equipment makers gathered for the 46th Paris Automobile Salon, Europe's most important auto show. So eager were Frenchmen to see the new cars that Paris hotels were booked solid weeks in advance. What they saw were cars ranging from Italy's tiny $1,070 Vespa Deluxe to Rolls-Royce's most expensive model, the $26,000 Phantom V, designed for "important guests and executives," with a TV set, figured French walnut woodwork and air conditioning that adjusts automatically. There was also a multifuel engine, designed for trucks and military vehicles, that Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Paris Models | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Much the same third that favor basic socialization also support "immediate unilateral suspension of atomic tests" by the United States (hence the little green stickers on Vespa fenders: Halt Bomb Tests), and "reduction of current unemployment by government action, even at the price of aggravating inflation...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Much the same third that favor basic socialization also support "immediate unilateral suspension of atomic tests" by the United States (hence the little green stickers on Vespa fenders: Halt Bomb Tests), and "reduction of current unemployment by government action, even at the price of aggravating inflation...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...capital city of San Juan (pop. 400,000) sits on two islands between a bay and a lagoon. Its sights are blue-bricked streets, ancient masonry, white skyscrapers, rain-dappled, flamboyant trees, traffic jams of Fords, Chevies, Opels, Consuls, Taunuses and Vespa scooters. In the old city, hand-printed poems of amor on sale at 25? flutter from a clothespin in a dowdy doorway next to a modern furniture store whose neon sign shouts: "Use Nuestro Layaway Plan." But San Juan also has festering El Fanguito and neighboring swampland slums of stilted crackerbox shanties, partly cleared but still the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: The Bard of Bootstrap | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...Wednesday, Radcliffe girls helped break up the formality of more "official" stops in their itinerary. After a dinner in Holmes Hall, the six editors took turns riding around the Radcliffe quad on a Vespa and sang folk songs. They diplomatically declined an invitation to sing the "Internationale," however, describing it as "musically too difficult...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: Russian Editors Will Finish Visit In TV Interview | 5/23/1958 | See Source »

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