Word: models
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sure that Artist Chapin could have come up with a more accurate symbolic conception of the suburban wife. The face is O.K., but that hairdo-never. Wife of Associate Editor Birnbaum would have made an excellent model...
...house than serious military business. In a darkened classroom, a group of G.I.s peered blindly around trying to identify mysterious sounds, then put on infrared glasses and saw a jet plane overhead, a Jeep picking up a wounded man, an enemy infiltrator creeping toward them. In another room a model missile aircompressor system went whoomp, shooting a miniature missile ceilingward. In a third, a miniature carbon-dioxide plant emitted a cloud of gas and strewed bits of Dry Ice on the floor. The gadgets are just a few of the ingenious devices that Colonel Frank J. Polich has built...
...workshops at his disposal, Polich invented dozens of classroom de vices to illustrate the latest engineering and electrical developments for 32 courses. Instead of the standard black board sketches and one-dimensional charts, he mounted cutaway engines on huge boards, indicated power flow by beads, lights and liquids. A model of the fuel-injection system for diesel engines spouts real flames; the school also has a huge cutaway bulldozer that actually works with most of the moving parts exposed to view. "A chart of a missile system in static form would send a student back to Kentucky," says Polich...
...Three, whose invasion of the market has not hurt him. Rambler sales have risen from 6.3% of total industry sales just before the advent of Falcon, Corvair and Valiant to 7.1% today -and are still climbing. Last week Rambler delivered its 300,000th unit for the 1960 model year, is running two months ahead of last year's record production and chalking up sales 25% over the last model year. In two years Romney has doubled production. By fall, American Motors will be able to turn out 625,000 compacts a year. Romney expects to need every...
...intrudes in other ways; a hard-boiled woman reporter publicizes Teawhit, drawing crowds of bumptious tourists, and con men stage a carnival and a rodeo-cheap shows that fake what once was real and vital. In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole. Little Buckety dies when he falls off a bronco at the rodeo. Author Leahy's Indians prove too willing victims of civilization. But between the indifferent sea and the mountains, the Indians and little Jerrod eke out a few moments of great tenderness...