Word: slenderized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Astronomic Odds. Last week the program got under way as five slender, needlelike Army Pershing missiles lifted from a barren mesa outside the town of Blanding, Utah, climbed above the earth's atmosphere and arced to bull's-eye landings in impact areas at the heavily instrumented White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, some 350 miles to the southeast. Later this month, the Air Force will launch the first of some 80 Athena rockets from Green River, Utah, to White Sands, a span of almost 500 miles. The Athenas, toting experimental nose cones are expected to provide...
...continental look launched five years ago never got off the ground beyond Madison Avenue which endorses this narrow, narrow look. Similar to the English coat, but shorter and boxier in appearance, it is otherwise chiefly distinguishable by its slanted pockets, and ultra slender appearance, and fabric...
Happy Results. The second season of the park's Rebekah Harkness Foundation Dance Festival conclusively proved what its first had plainly suggested-that the Manhattan dance audience is as vast as it is eager to improve its slender diet. Conceived just last year as a $15,000, six-day experiment, the program was nourished along this year with a $39,500 grant from the Harkness Foundation, and was expanded to fill the "dark" Monday nights of the park's Shakespeare Festival. The season was such a success with the crowds that plans are already afoot to extend...
...GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS by Muriel Spark. 176 pages. Knopf...
...them naked and lubricated with soap, desperately trying to squirm to salvation through a tiny bathroom window in a burning London house. Happily, no one excels Scots-born Novelist Muriel Spark at the satiric art of making the outrageous seem natural-and the natural outrageous. In The Girls of Slender Means she not only gets away with trial by hip-size in the bathroom but thriftily makes it a moment of religious crisis. After witnessing the scene, a male character joins the Catholic Church and heads for darkest Haiti, where he is eventually martyred by angry natives...