Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Flagg's best-known work of all was a World War I recruiting poster-perhaps the only one in history that actually drove large numbers of young men into wartime recruiting offices. Using his own lean, darkly handsome face as a model, he depicted a stern, black-browed Uncle Sam pointing an inescapable, slacker-accusing finger, demanding: I WANT YOU. The Government printed 4.000.-000 copies, shipped them to every city, town and hamlet in the nation...
...allies that the new regime was dedicated to maintaining Turkey's commitments to NATO, CENTO and the West. One of Gursel's first acts was to dispatch a colonel to inform U.S. Ambassador Fletcher Warren: "Tell the U.S. that we want to build a Turkey on the model...
Last week's Midas (for Missile Defense Alarm System) was an experimental model, and its orbit was carefully planned so as not to pass over the Soviet Union. After two days, it lost radio contact with earth. But even in its silence it spun through the sky as the prototype of a complete Midas system, scheduled for operation in 1963, that in its ability to sound an alarm and to summon retaliatory forces, should become a new and powerful deterrent against surprise attack. And most of all, Midas II was a dramatic symbol of the U.S.'s successful...
PORTABLE TRANSISTOR TV with 19-in. screen will be put on sale by Motorola Inc. New suitcase-size model is first big-screen transistorized portable. It weighs 40 Ibs., including a 5-lb. energy cell that provides five to six hours' operation, can be recharged up to 500 times from regular electrical outlet. Price...
...once he joined the Reds, Malinovsky rapidly became the very model of a modern Marxist officer. He was sent to the Frunze Academy, Russia's equivalent of the Command and General Staff College, acquired a wife, four children, and more important, a Communist Party card. Somehow the purges that all but shattered the Soviet officer corps in the '30s never touched him. Stepping into the shoes of executed superiors, he was a one-star general commanding a cavalry corps when World War II broke...