Word: model
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Marriage Ties. In Los Angeles. Model Doris Oliver. 25. won a divorce after she testified that her husband "cut off my hair, shaved my head, took out the telephone, took away my clothes, beat me. threatened me with a gun. and locked me in the apartment for two months...
...results of Lieut. Commander Draim's idea. A group of Navy hands took a pickup truck to a lagoon at Point Mugu and unloaded a crude wooden missile about 6-ft. long. Navy frogmen put it on a rubber raft, paddled 200 ft. from shore and dumped the model overboard. It floated upright with the point of its nose in sight...
...frogmen returned to shore, paying out an insulated wire as they went. After a short countdown, an officer pressed a button, sent along the wire an electrical impulse that touched off a small, solid-propellant aircraft rocket in the model's tail. The model rose sedately out of the water, climbed to about 60 ft. and plopped down again. It all looked too easy to be true. Nothing but water was needed to hold the rocket upright, and only water was affected by its blast. Even if the rocket had carried 1,000,000 Ibs. of fuel...
...intended as a moderately optimistic report on the company's affairs. After losing $5,400,000 in 1959 and $33.8 million in 1958, said Colbert, "in the first quarter of 1960 we are definitely in the black." The company got off to a slow start on the 1960-model run. had run into heavy expenses in buying premium steel during last fall's strike, spent millions tooling up to produce the Valiant compact and to convert body shops to the new unibody construction. But now sales are climbing, reported Colbert, and all divisions, even high-priced Chrysler Imperial...
...classic campaign biography should sound like a chorus of When the Saints Go Marching In. It should present its hero as both liberal and conservative, fearless and cautious, witty and generous, as a model of propriety and sagacity, and a lover (figuratively and respectfully speaking) of American womanhood. In this presidential year, as usual, nearly all of the major candidates are on view.* Some of the portraits present the usual saintly features, while others are outright smears. A few are honest attempts to measure the candidates in more than one dimension...