Word: fastens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rillat was all but born to his crown. His mother used to ski back and forth between La Clusaz and her family's Alpine farmhouse; his father ran a La Clusaz ski lift. At four, Guy got his first pair of skis for Christmas. Even before he could fasten them on by himself, he could use them well enough to tackle the steepest and most treacherous slopes. From the start, he aimed at becoming a champion. Recalls one townsman: "Guy seemed to realize even before he could reason that he would have to strengthen his body. When...
Dead Shot. Jaipur's maharajah offered her a ride on a ceremonial elephant. As Elizabeth eyed her prospective conveyance, the voice of Prince Philip was heard. "Fasten your seat belt," he cried. The Queen grinned and clambered up to her seat. Two days later, Philip took stage center himself when the maharaja put on a tiger hunt. The first day neither the efforts of more than 100 beaters nor the lure of scores of staked-down bullocks and goats produced even a single cub. But on the second day a handsome, 9-ft. 8-in. tiger loped into sight...
...gallery owners estimate that there are about 100 serious U.S. painters now working in Paris, but few of them have attracted as much attention as 35-year-old Joe Downing, who comes from Horse Cave, Ky. (pop. 1,545). With scraps of specially treated paper and a stapler to fasten them together, Downing produces "paintings" that have brought French critics under his spell...
...Fire two," is not as taut a ship as it should be. The reason may be that Director Duilio Coletti has paid too much attention to civilian foolishness, notably that of Prisoner Mylene Demongeot, a blonde who billows like the ocean and is so amply constructed that she cannot fasten her life jacket...
Back to Marx. At this point, Douglas MacArthur II ran smack into two more unfortunate monuments to his uncle's administration of Japan. In the heady early years of the occupation, General MacArthur was somehow persuaded to let SCAP's Labor Division fasten onto Japan a set of labor-relations laws that gave Japanese unions a readymade war chest by imposing the dues "checkoff," and saddled the country with minimum standards for working hours, accident compensation, etc. matching those of the U.S. Desperately short of trained leaders, the unions all too often turned to Socialist and Communist agitators...