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...depth of the gold mine, but the entire universe is believed to be swarming with neutrinos that will be deterred not at all by two miles of rock. Some of them are believed to carry unusual amounts of energy, and these fat neutrinos should be easier to detect than leaner ones...
Shaky Foundations. The decline in profit margins is especially painful because West Germany is woefully short of money for capital investment. In the booming postwar years, German companies financed most of their pell-mell expansion out of retained earnings. This year, with earnings leaner, German industry will not have so much to plow back into capital investment...
...Functionalism. The '63 cars come in more shapes and sizes than ever before, yet have in common an easily identifiable look. It eschews the finny ostentation of the '50s. There is more sparing use of chrome, and more accent on cleaner lines, giving the new cars a leaner, more angular profile. The '63 look is one of luxurious functionalism...
...dean of freshmen was pleased to find them "well lopsided." The dean of admissions glowed over their "fascinating mix of talents and interests." Brighter, taller, leaner and more bespectacled than ever, 1,216 freshmen marched into Harvard last week...
...slump is not readily susceptible to solution. The New York Times's Assistant Managing Editor Theodore Bernstein merely ignores the annual doldrums, secure in the knowledge that the U.S.'s fattest paper always goes on a summer diet: from June to September the Times is ten columns leaner than in the cool months. (The headlines are leaner too. At week's end, the paper's major front-page news story, in column eight, had not supported more than a one-column head since July 26.) Eric Franklin, the Boston Traveler's acting news editor, encourages...