Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open the conference this week, the U.N. called on the President of the U.S. In the chair it placed The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens, 60, a familiar U.N. figure. But when the conference got under way, the man in charge was a slim and sandy-haired Swede with an easy smile, a sensitive mouth, and eyes the same color as the light blue U.N. flag. He is Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the U.N. and the world's No. 1 international civil servant...
Called the "Electra" after Lockheed's first 200-m.p.h. transport (1934), the new plane will be a big improvement over Britain's seven-year-eld Vickers Viscount, which now dominates the commercial turboprop field. Slim and hightailed, the Electra will have four engines, will cruise at 410-440 m.p.h. for flights up to 2,000 miles, 25% faster and 1,000 miles farther than current Viscounts. It will carry 64 passengers (compared to Viscount's 48) in a cabin with big picture windows, a lounge, and wider seats, each with a combination desk-tray...
...January 1949 it was shipped to White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex. for final testing and flight. It looked fine: a slim aluminum pencil 32 in. in diameter and 44 ft. long, packed with the finest products of modern technology. But deep in its innards, as Rosen and his devoted crew gradually discovered, were massed echelons of hostile guerrillas: valves that refused to close or to open, electrical leaks and short circuits of high and low degree...
...definitely in its favor. Before the last election, in October, 1951, the Conservatives confidently expected to win a majority of 105 seats in Parliament. They won by a majority of 16. Moreover, no previous Government in British political history has ever lasted for more than four years on as slim a lead as the Conservatives now have and then triumphed at the polls. Labourites are banking on precedent. They are also hoping that U.S. Republican victory in 1952 will prompt Britishers to redress the political balance on their side of the Atlantic in favor of socialism. Indeed, some Socialists have...
...correspondent in the Far East, slim, modest Gene Symonds rose rapidly in the United Press. Right after World War II and a stint on Stars and Stripes, he went to Ohio State University for a year, then in 1947 covered the Ohio legislature in Columbus for U.P. Symonds moved to New York, was working on the U.P/s foreign desk when the Korean war broke out. Unmarried, he volunteered to go to the Far East, became a war correspondent, manager for the Philippines