Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engineer and a civil engineer himself, he bristles with impatience at imperfection, especially in his own performance. To keep his 6-ft., 182-lb. frame in shape, Evans, 42, began jogging a few years ago, long before it became the thing to do. Last year friends gave him the "Tired Tennis Shoe Award"?a scruffy old sneaker which he proudly displays in a glass case in his office. Essentially he is a loner, and his favorite sports are those that pit a single man against nature, or against the limits of his own endurance?hiking, mountain climbing, skiing, sailing...
PERHAPS nothing is more baffling about the complex war in Viet Nam than trying to imagine how it will end-foretelling the specific shape and nature of the final peace that somehow, some day must be made. How the U.S. extricates itself from Viet Nam is, for Americans and, in particular, for both political parties, the most important piece in the overall puzzle. Many lives and large issues of policy are at stake. Far more than was the case with the Korean War, how the Viet Nam conflict ends is apt to affect for years both the image Americans have...
...Outside the Government, a great deal of ingenuity has been applied in recent months to devising "scenarios" of how the war might be ended, the peace structured and the U.S. presence in Viet Nam reduced. Considerably more agreement exists about how to end the war than about how to shape the peace...
...marks the typical delegate is a long record of giving time and energy to the party of his choice. This is what may pin the hack label upon him-though it also clearly demonstrates a continuing concern, whether base or altruistic, that makes him feel far more entitled to shape the political process than his long-indifferent neighbors...
Miami Mortgage Banker. Alan B. Ives, president of American Title Co., has a different solution. "I talked it over with the woman in charge of our office girls, and we agreed on miniskirts if the underpants matched." Obviously, acceptable hem length depends on the length-and shape-of a woman's legs. Determining how high miniskirts should be allowed to go, says Philip Earl, consultant for Los Angeles' Merchants & Manufacturers As sociation, "is like measuring a jellyfish with a rubber ruler...