Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Bernard Marmaduke Fitz-Alan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, announced that Ascot would relax its rigid rules. From now on, participation in a divorce action will not be grounds for automatic exclusion from the royal enclosure. The same old rigid rules would still govern admission to the patch of ground immediately before the Queen's box, known as the "Queen's Lawn." And now that the big barrier is down, said the duke, the size of the royal enclosure will be doubled...
...President also found ample time to relax, watched the early innings of World Series games before taking to the golf course (where a portable radio kept him posted on the score). He rooted for, and made token bets on, the hapless Cleveland Indians...
...Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright later developed. In the 1930s he deeply influenced today's theater design by blueprinting expandable stages and semicircular projection screens. In the 1940s he painted ideally simple theater sets for No Exit and The Magic Flute, began experimenting with abstract sculpture constructed "to relax inside." More recently he completed a project for a "continuous house" (egg-shaped), featuring a prismatic mechanism which would flood the interior with different colors for each hour of the day. His latest brainchildren, which went on exhibition at Manhattan's Sidney Janis gallery last week, he calls "galaxies...
Humphrey's advice was seconded by witty, urbane Eugenio Gudin, Finance Minister of Brazil, who is now hoping to relax some of the tight restrictions against outside investors imposed by the late President Vargas. Gudin said underdeveloped countries must rid themselves of "three plagues . . . expropriation of foreign property without payment . . . inflation [and] nationalism." But he also had some advice for Humphrey and the U.S.: give the U.S. businessman an income-tax break on foreign investments. (At present, foreign profits are taxed twice−in the country in which they are made, and in the U.S.) Concluded Gudin: "After...
...Thin men fight off cold by shivering, while their chubby brothers relax behind insulating layers of fat, said two Army researchers, Dr. Farrington Daniels Jr. and Paul Baker. Volunteer subjects, wearing nothing but shorts, sat in a 60° room for two hours. The fat men kept their internal body temperatures normal, although their skin temperatures dropped. The thin men maintained higher skin readings, partly by drawing on the body's internal heat supply, partly by shivering more. The shivering was accompanied by increased oxygen consumption, as the thin men burned more food to keep warm...