Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual, come well briefed for the problems to be discussed: the longstanding Chamizal border dispute, arising from a slight shift in the course of the Rio Grande, Mexican complaints that U.S. irrigation projects were making the upper Colorado River too salty for Mexican farmers. Kennedy had planned to bring up Mexico's adamant hands-off stand on Cuba if he got on well with López Mateos-and he did. But he did not press too hard. Castro and Cuba were not why he was in Mexico...
Very much in this year is slight, soft-spoken Donald Brooks, 34, who has given to middle-income womanhood the understated elegance hitherto associated with high-price high fashion. Last April the New York Drama Critics presented him with their annual award for his costumes for Richard Rodgers' No Strings. This week the Coty American Fashion Critics (75 top fashion editors) gave him their Winnie award (like an Oscar, only chic) for his fall collection...
...meaning of the novel must emerge. But Baldwin's writing skill, adequate in simpler novels, is not up to maneuvering so complex a collection of people. The dialogue, in which all women are referred to as "chicks," is sometimes sharply comic, often hopelessly wooden. The action, which is slight, drags. The characters' inner soul searchings too often lapse into a kind of interchangeable interior recollection that seems to be carried on not by individuals but by Baldwin himself...
...membership: 190,000) with a right-of-center, free-enterprising program which had opposed the apertura a sinistra. The Liberals' strong showing suggested a distrust of the left, a belief that free-enterprise capitalism can do most for Italy's new and growing middle class. Despite this slight pull to the right, Premier Fanfanrs alliance had weathered its first test at the polls. His Christian Democrats' vote dipped a bit, but their coalition partners did well. As Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti complained, the elections reflected an unmistakable "moderate tendency...
...earlier predicted would hit $570 billion this year, now seems unlikely to rise higher than $555 billion to $560 billion. Business inventories-a big factor in determining G.N.P.-should be rising at this time of year; instead, the April inventory figures, in terms of sales expectations, showed a slight decline. New factory orders for durable goods have declined for the third month...