Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who do not care for blue blood mixed with ordinary red remember dourly how the King's golf led him to his second wife, the commoner Mary Liliane Baels. She used to wait for Leopold at the 18th hole at Le Zoute on the North Sea, a tony resort, but not too tony for nouveaux riÇhes. Like her royal husband, she is a topnotch golfer, plays the Onex course under 80, has twice held the Club de Genève women's championship. Though she is merely the daughter of a newly rich fish merchant...
...peacetime Army was getting more like a country club all the time, and it was not worrying about the expense either. To coax reserve officers and enlisted men into weekend training camps, the Army was fixing up New York's Fort Totten to take care of the citizen soldiers' families as well. The wives and kiddies would have to pay for their own meals and transportation, of course. But the Army would convert part of the post hospital into comfortable family quarters for a long country weekend on the shores of Long Island. The idea, which started...
...speedway calendar. Plugging along at 70 m.p.h. -and letting other models slip past at better speeds-was a 1948 British Aston-Martin coupe. Its two-man crew, a couple of middle-aged English amateurs, were there just to prove that "any British family man who drives with care . . . can give these continental chaps a run for their money...
...archaeologists in 1936, the pieces were plastered together again, finally sold to the Metropolitan. On exhibition at the museum last week, the proudly tilted head was one of the earliest examples of portrait sculpture known. The nostrils (to Egyptians the seat of life) had been carved with special care, presumably so that the Master could breathe without trouble...
...Seattle, an insurance salesman refurbished an old trick to sign up the uninsured. He got pictures of unsuspecting prospects, had an artist brush in the lines, sags and bags they might have at 65, and confronted the subjects with the question : "What are you doing to take care of this fellow...