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...much on display as the 21-year-old future King of England will be his kid sister, Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise, 19, fourth in line for the British throne and, it is said, something of a swinger. Plump and dowdy as a teenager, Anne, according to Women's Wear Daily, the supreme authority for all such judgments, has succeeded at "slimming down and picking up more graceful airs." Moreover, the best is yet to be, says W.W.D.: "She shows signs of a beauty that will probably come with maturity...
Production Explosion. The Green Revolution dawned in 1944, when four young men funded by the Rockefeller Foundation gathered in the hills outside Mexico City and began experimenting with what eventually became a strain of unusually hardy, plump-grained wheat. Buoyed by their success, the Rockefeller Foundation joined with the Ford Foundation in 1962 and began work at Los Banos in the Philippines on an equally miraculous rice strain. The result was IR5 and IR8, experimentally introduced in 1964. Their arrival touched off a production explosion in the grain bowls of the world...
When Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike entered politics in 1960, she campaigned on the reputation of her late husband -a former Prime Minister of Ceylon who had been assassinated five months earlier-and all but inundated the lovely, spice-scented island with her tears. A plump, matronly woman who had served contentedly as the dutiful wife of a strong-willed man and the mother of three children, she was reluctant to run. Finally she announced: "It is a duty I owe to my late husband...
Carping at the more egregious ethical lapses on Capitol Hill is a popular American sport. It is in season all the time, and offers bounties to political scientists and editorial writers whenever a plump target like Bobby Baker, Senator Thomas Dodd or Representative Adam Clayton Powell pops up. The sport is perfectly legitimate, especially because Congressmen are often hasty to impose tougher conflict-of-interest standards on others than on their own erring colleagues. But serious, searching analysis of the subject is uncommon. Last week the Association of the Bar of the City of New York produced exactly that...
Rumania's Tarom has new, British-built BAC-111s on its international flights, but little else. Pilots hamhandedly overcompensate on the controls, giving each flight the quality of a roller-coaster ride. Stewardesses are plump and cheerful. Breakfast sometimes consists of cold roast pork and sliced green peppers. Bucharest has a modern terminal, but ground service is slow and surly...