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...National Book Award for poetry. As founder and editor of the Kenyon Review, mentor to a platoon of celebrated poets and writers, and father of the New Criticism, Ransom is probably the most influential U.S. scholar-critic of the past 40 years. As the author of a few slender books of poetry, he has drawn the highest praise from the knottiest intellectuals of his time...
Meanwhile, back in the studio kitchen, Mrs. Child, her husband, the cameramen, the director, crew and two volunteer dishwashers sit down to eat the subject matter. Is she overweight? No, magically, she is slender as a scallion...
...plastics, 600 tons of steel, and enough corrugated cartons to cover 480 football fields. Chicago's Strombecker Corp. (midget racers, Tootsietoys) will consume more than 118 million tiny tires from Japan, and Los Angeles' Eldon Industries will use more than 300 tons of steel for the slender rails embedded in its plastic roadracing track...
...from Tribalism. These two preconditions needed a third, however, to make Tanganyika a successful independent state. That ingredient-leadership-is provided by Julius Nyerere. A slender, soft-eyed man with a Chaplinesque mustache, Nyerere is the antithesis of most African leaders. Where others affect high-flown nicknames like "Redeemer" (Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah) or "Lion of Malawi" (Nyasa-land's Kamuzu Banda), Nyerere is content to be known as Mwalimu-Swahili for teacher. Where other leaders use their high-powered, government-owned radios for propaganda messages, Nyerere uses his to broadcast casual eco nomic lessons. Recently he translated...
...French Pediatrician Bernard-Jean Antonin Marfan, is marked by excessive long-bone growth; it gives people elongated arms, legs, fingers and toes, angular heads and faces. One of the surest signs of Marfan's syndrome is a condition known as arachnodactyly-a spidery hand with long, slender fingers of exceptional dexterity. Many such people succumb to some form of heart disease early in life. One suspected Marfan type who escaped this fate was Abraham Lincoln, who had the hands of a skinny giant...