Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...shift of U.S. car buyers to compacts-which last week accounted for 27.9% of auto sales-has forced Detroit to completely realign its 1961 new-model plans. The result will be a major series of body-styling and engine changes to meet the public's demand for economy in size and performance. Not only will there be more-and bigger-compacts, but standard-size cars will come smaller...
AMERICAN MOTORS will bring out a Rambler with an engine having an aluminum block for its bestselling model, the 108-in. Rambler. The new block is 50% lighter than a conventional cast-iron block, and by cutting down weight is expected to improve gas mileage. American Motors also has a new muffler, which it says will not have to be replaced, as in most present cars. Coated with ceramic, it should last for 90,000 miles of driving, says American Motors...
...made goods just the thing to fight competition in U.S. markets. Royal McBee set up a typewriter plant in Holland in 1953 as part of its world marketing program, but heavy competition in the U.S. from foreign-made, lightweight typewriters forced it to begin shipping a similar, Dutch-made model into...
...musician, Beth has much in common with the woman who was the model for this week's cover. Artist James Chapin based his symbolic portrait of the suburban wife on a painting he did several years...
...sociologists and swarms of cityside cynics, but in reality he is his own best critic. Organized suburban living is a relatively new invention, and already some of its victims are wondering if it has too much organization and too little living. The pressure of activity and participation in the model suburb of Lakewood, for example, can be harrowing. The town's recreation league boasts no boys' baseball teams (2,000 players), 36 men's softball teams, ten housewives' softball teams. In season, the leagues play 75 boys' and 30 men's basketball teams...