Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group was formed in 1956 by Francois Luambo, a lean, goateed guitarist who calls himself Franco and lists his nonmusical recreations as "football, women, and driving fast in my white Thunderbird." Taking their name from a Leopoldville pub called the O.K. Bar, Franco and his crowd have since played in Europe and in every country in West and Central Africa except Ghana. When the "Okayistes" travel in Africa, the President of the host country often places a plane at their disposal. In every capital, crowds of Africans too poor to get inside the club where they are playing...
Dead Aim. Best of them all is the Los Angeles Dodgers' Sandy Koufax, 27. So far this season, Koufax has pitched one no-hitter (against Manager Dark's Giants), two two-hitters and four three-hitters. His earned run average is a lean 1.64, and he leads both major leagues with 163 strikeouts. He started last week by blanking the Cincinnati Reds on three hits, 4-0. Five days later, he picked up another shutout (his ninth) at the expense of the New York Mets, 6-0, and became the first pitcher in either league...
...point during the lavish opening of almost every new Hilton hotel, the houselights dim and spotlights pick out a lean, tall man with a shy smile on his permanently suntanned face. He escorts a pretty girl-usually a new one each time-to the center of the ballroom floor. Then, to the slow, stately strains of the violins, they point their feet, bow, turn about and sweep elegantly into an unfamiliar step. The dance is the courtly Varsoviana, brought to America from the palaces of Europe by Mexico's Emperor Maximilian; the man who puts his foot...
...Queen's private garden in London, on the Nile in Cairo and above the Bosporus in Istanbul, at the foot of the Elburz Mountains in Teheran. All of the hotels glisten and glitter, with an architecture that ranges from international slab to a crosshatched radio-cabinet style. They lean heavily on the anonymity of modernism, and display a spartan opulence designed as much to save the hotel money as to attract the clients. In countries where there is no previous standard of hotel excellence, Hiltons are oases; in such old cities as Rome, London or Paris, they...
Billions for Defense. The four major NATO nations in Western Europe-Britain, France, Italy and West Germany-have increased their defense spending an average 45% since 1959 to $15 billion this year. Despite the trend in Britain to lean more and more on the U.S. for its major defense protection, its defense budget this year is $5.2 billion, or about 7% of its gross national product (v. almost 10% for the U.S.). President de Gaulle, with his longing to have his own independent force de frappe, has set France's 1963 defense spending at $3.7 billion...