Word: slim
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William Earl Casper Jr., 35, used to be a fat, sick Congregationalist, who won a lot of money playing golf. He is now a slim, healthy Mormon. Nothing else has changed. Last week, at San Francisco's Olympic Country Club golf course, Billy won the U.S. Open for the second time-without even trying...
Speaking for a slim 5-to-4 majority, Warren made it clear that he, along with Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas and William Brennan, was convinced that questioning in the back room of a police station-the kind of questioning that led to all four confessions under consideration last week-is inherently coercive. Even if there is no physical intimidation, said the Chief Justice, the suspect in "police custody, surrounded by antagonistic forces, and subjected to the techniques of persuasion" that are the stock in trade of the modern interrogator, "cannot be otherwise than under compulsion...
Hans Koningsberger is plainly dis satisfied with much that has been writ ten about Red China. He scorns "sta tistics" served up by China-watchers. He wants no part of journalistic "prej udice" or "travelogues." In this slim account, he professes to add his own new dimension - "a novelist's descrip tion of the moods and atmosphere" inside the world's most secretive closed society...
...months preceding the March 1966, election Heath became more effective and the Tories were given a slim chance to topple the Labour government. But the election demonstrated that Heath's leadership was of little help at the polls. The Wilson government was returned with a majority of over 100 members in the House of Commons...
Harvard's heavyweight varsity crew is looking for its third straight Eastern Sprints victory Saturday--and competition is mighty slim...