Word: slenderness
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...Dallegret's La Machine is a far heftier entree. A Frenchman, now designing for Montreal's Expo 67, Dallegret has designed a device that looks like a giant metal steeplechase hurdle, weighs half a ton, and is priced at $27,000. It consists of two slender beams of anodized aluminum, 30 ft. long by 2 ft. high, braced between uprights. A cool piece of pure structure, the object has all the contemplative imagery of an I beam, but it has an inner electronic life. The narrow six-inch gap between the aluminum beams is brightly lit by hidden...
Also active in tentative negotiations were Erich Mende's Free Democrats, who hold a slender balance of power between the two big parties in the Bundestag. It was they who precipitated the current crisis by quitting Ludwig Erhard's Cabinet over budget problems. Now they were talking separately to the Socialists and to their former CDU partners about the prospect of forming a "mini-coalition...
...weeks the great silver-and-blue jet had chased the sun. Then, carrying Lyndon Johnson on the last leg of his Asian odyssey, Air Force One changed course. Soaring over the slender, gilded spires of Bangkok's temples, it wheeled south for a brief stopover in Kuala Lumpur, was subsequently scheduled to head northeast for Seoul, the last Asian capital on the President's itinerary. Behind lay the summit conference in Manila and Johnson's his toric visit to South Viet Nam, the first trip ever made by a U.S. President to a foreign battlefield save...
...leather chair surrounded by students eager to impress him with their knowledge of obscure Indian cults. Not until a few days later did I realize what an impact he had made on me. I was walking through the Yard when I happened to be struck by the slender, bright-white spire of Mem Church slicing the dark sky. I stopped, looked, and tried to concentrate. "What the hell are you doing standing like a fool gazing at the sky?" I asked myself. There was an embarrassing silence. Then it started raining and I went inside...
...defense, Cornell's rugged forward wall averages 240 pounds per man, including Craig Gannon, who weighs in at 290. He'll be opposite Harvard tackle Bob Brooks (a slender 225), one of the linemen most responsible for opening up running room this season for the Crimson backs...