Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever a Briton was born and bred for success, it was Eden. The third son of Sybil and Sir William Eden, a country gentleman and master of hounds, Anthony Eden had a perfect pedigree for membership in the British ruling class: Sandroyd Preparatory School, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he won first-class honors in Persian and Arabic and pulled a respectable oar. Before entering Oxford, young Anthony saw action in France with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the first World War; at the age of 20 he became a brigade major...
...month. Developed by Britain's Sinclair Radionics, the 26½ oz., minitube measures 6 in. by 4 in. by 1½ in., which calls for an ample pocket. Says Inventor Clive Sinclair, who also pioneered in developing the pocket calculator: "It's not a toy, but a perfect set for the businessman." The battery-powered sets are designed to operate in both the U.S. and Europe. Thus a traveling executive can catch the evening news on his way to Kennedy Airport and the early bulletins next morning in London or Paris. All he needs is the $300 purchase...
...like jacket of fire-engine red. with a matching overcoat. The contrast with Rosalynn green may be striking. But the costume styling of both women will be functional and a bit, well, conventional. For the people's Inauguration of the avowed no-nonsense new Administration, it should be perfect...
...film's second, longer half deals with professional-level competition in the Mr. Olympics contest. The film makers have found an ideal protagonist and set him against a dramatically perfect antagonist. In the former role they have, as the contest announcer endlessly calls him, "the one and only" Arnold Schwarzenegger, 29, an Austrian-born U.S. citizen, six times winner of this title and anxious to retire on the seventh victory. A cool, shrewd and boyish charmer, he exudes the easy confidence of a man who has always known he will be a star of some kind (and who could...
...bases his qualifications for admission on the perfect 800 score he received on the Law School Admissions Test...