Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confident of quick rescue, they gathered together their slim rations (three pieces of chocolate, a bottle of protein and calcium tablets) and salvaged clothing, holed up for several nights in a shelter rigged from signal-flare parachutes, kept their feet warm in below-freezing temperatures by tucking them into an oversized insulated ice bucket. Although Dalton had suffered a head injury in the crash, it seemed minor; they decided to strike out down the slope through the waist-deep snow. Pausing to rest on a ledge, the exhausted couple rigged a shaky windbreak and decided to stay put. There Dalton...
Into the big white presidential palace, over the rich red carpets, the sweating, ill-dressed black people of Port-au-Prince swarmed last week. They stood in the elegant corridors and squatted in the yellow-draped reception room, waiting for a glimpse of the slim mathematics professor who took power a few days before. When he left the palace, they ran alongside his car, shouting their affection for 42-year-old acting President Daniel Fignole...
...Slim (6 ft. 3 in., 160 Ibs.) Don Bowden had finally outpaced his luck. When he was a sophomore, a heel injury held him back; illness kept him from placing in the 1,500-meter run at the Olympics. Fortnight ago studies kept him from running with the four visiting four-minute milers in the Los Angeles Coliseum (TIME, June 3). But last week, he said, he knew he was ready. At 20, he sees no reason why he cannot eventually break John Landy's 3:58 world's record-but not this season. "I have very...
...industry for 1958 is the new wide-angle picture tube pioneered by Sylvania. By widening the projection angle from 90° to 110°, the new tube cuts 4 to 6 in. off cabinet depth, up to 50% off bulk. Herbert Riegelman, G.E. TV general manager, calls the new "slim line" the "industry's first opportunity for planned obsolescence," hopes that the new flatter sets will bring TV back into the living room as the old bulkier set is relegated to the playroom...
Plus Equals Minus. Capital was in such trouble, said President J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael, that it will have to "defer" a $60 million order for 14 British-built Comet jetliners and 15 Viscount turboprops that it hoped to add to its fleet. Some of the planes were already coming off the production line, freshly painted with Capital markings; now they will go to other lines until Capital's finances are in better shape. While Capital had increased its operating revenues by 62% to $19.2 million for the quarter, said Carmichael, rising costs, coupled with bad winter flying weather, which...