Word: slickness
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This spring's New Look in Soviet foreign policy--featuring neutral tones and alterations in the Western hem of the Iron Curtain has worried many designers of the Atlantic coalition. In their Paris, London and Washington shops, theses men are fearful that the new line putt out by the slick stylists of the Kremlin may draw off much of the demand for their new pattern. But of all the Russian offerings, most concern has focused on a striking neutral creation called "Reunified Germany" which has excited considerable interest among Europeans...
...Trib this week began another innovation: a pocket-size, 88-page TV and Radio Magazine, printed on slick paper with feature articles, program listings and full-color pictures, inserted in its regular Sunday edition...
NONSCHEDULED AIRLINES will soon get a chance to fly U.S. mail, if the courts uphold the Civil Aeronautics Board. After trying for years, three big charter operators (Slick, Flying Tiger, Riddle) have just won CAB permission to fly mail at 18½? per ton-mile (v. 45? for scheduled lines), and thus cut themselves in on the lucrative mail business. All that stands in their way is American Airlines, which claims that the CAB decision is illegal and has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for a review...
...Onetime (pre-1940) staffer on the Communist New Masses (under the nom de guerre of Robert Forsythe) and slick-magazine writer who turned to biography (The Marx Brothers...
...Cohen began to peel off $100 bills and to the bemused gaze of Wiretapper Vaus, the long green "became a diamond ring for Alice, chromium accessories for my car, a new tailor-made suit, a hand-painted tie . . ." But the highlight of Jim's criminal career was a slick trick for improving his judgment of race horses. He would cut into the direct Teletype wire between a bookie and the race track, take the race results on his own Teletype, and signal a confederate to place last-minute bets with the unsuspecting bookie before feeding the delayed tape back...