Word: models
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...less. Giorgia, it seemed, was an old-fashioned Italian gal who believed in keeping her engagement ring, as a sort of consolation prize, even after her engagement was broken. As for John Jr.: "I need the ring to get engaged again." His new Juliet: another Italian brunette beauty, ex-Model Gabriella Palazzoli...
...which is my personal law," ordered several specific bequests, then granted two-thirds of the remainder of the estimated $800 million estate to heirs, including Princess Yasmin, 10, his daughter by Second Wife Rita Hayworth. Among the specifics: $280,000 and his Chantilly, France, villa to elegant French Fashion Model Bettina, 35, his constant companion since 1955; $14,000 to Sybilla Szczeniowska, 38, a blonde New York fashion designer who met Aly 20 years ago in Cairo; and $56,000 to her Cairo-born son, Marek, 16, a Manhattan private school junior, who recollected &quo;seeing the prince three...
...Computer Is Born. It was the transistor, with its minuscule size and swiftness, which made possible the modern computer, perhaps the second greatest postwar new product. While shrinking in size, computers have vastly increased their speed and ability to handle problems. The fastest, IBM's $13.5 million STRETCH model, can add two 15-digit numbers in an incredible two-millionths of a second...
...sprays concrete. A wire-tying gun enables workmen simply to aim at the joint where steel reinforcing rods need to be lashed, pull the trigger, and the job is done. For do-it-yourself fans, Chicago's Wonder Building Corp. has brought out fallout-bomb-shelter kits: backyard model for $1,200, smaller basement shelter...
...businessman has begun to wonder whether gadgets may get the upper hand. Said one Westinghouse vice president: "Frivolous features on appliances that were nothing more than second-martini ideas have claimed unnecessarily hundreds of thou sands of dollars in research money." If the money wasted by industry on meaningless model changes were plowed into basic research, the genuinely new products would blossom that much faster...