Word: shaped
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Nerve Center. Since its creation in 1951 under General Dwight D. Eisenhower, SHAPE had meant a great deal to France. As the nerve center of NATO, it brought to Paris the best military brains of the Western world. The mounting and maintenance of its arsenal in France accounted for fully 25% of France's foreign earnings, employed more than 20,000 French workers...
...SHAPE had overall charge of 50 American and Canadian bases and 26,000 troops, which required some 820,000 tons of equipment that ranged from warplanes to pool tables. In addition, its 70,000 dependents were a boost to local French economies...
...windfall for France. It includes such unmovable assets as 46 new air fields, 17 Polaris depots, 1,200 miles of pipeline, 13 air navigational aid stations, ten underground cable and radio systems, nine naval base installations and three underground war headquarters. There were no tears or emotion as SHAPE moved out last week-except, possibly, among the military's cost accounting experts...
...flick, a comedy called The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, calls for the heroine to play a swinging East German lady decathlon champ who decides to take it on the lam from that draggy country. Zoom!-she pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall. To get in shape for the part, Actress Elke Sommer, 25, has been tearing around the U.C.L.A. athletic field. "I consider myself very athletic," said Elke, who certainly did look in nice form as she took the low hurdles. For the Wall-vaulting sequence, though, the studio will use a stuntman made up to look like Elke...
...billion to $31.2 billion over the year, the open-end funds came through 1966 far better than the market as a whole. The value of all U.S. stocks plunged by 13% to $587.4 billion. But the funds' portfolios dipped only 7%, which left them in fine shape to lead the bargain-hunting charge that, more than anything else, has accounted for the 1967 market's bullish big volume and upward movement...