Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to make your own forms and you can make any form you need." Duck Soup. When Emhart first commissioned SOM, the firm turned out sketches of two-and three-story buildings resting on the ground that seemed uninspired and esthetically wrong. Then Bunshaft did a doodle of a slim rectangle hovering over a curved line, and from this the design began to crystallize. He called in Structural Engineer Paul Weidlinger "to talk over how to hold the building together." Suddenly, adds Bunshaft, mixing up his metaphors along with his concrete, "the whole thing began to fall together like duck...
...frightens me," said Coach Payton Jordan. Indeed, to hear them chatter, the U.S. team that took on Russia last week was the hottest thing since sweat suits. "Each of us is the best in our field," boasted Hurdler Rex Cawley before the meet. "The Russians have two chances -slim and none," chortled High Jumper Gene Johnson. Munch, Munch. The words must have tasted bitter. After two disastrous days in Moscow, the men's team barely edged the Russians, 119-114, and the women's team lost by an embarrassing 75-28. It was the worst performance...
...Congressmen, led by Study Group chairman Rep. John Blatnick of Minnesota, fear Young is conservative enough to turn against the Administration and restore control of the Rules Committee to the lethal Southern Democratic-Republican coalition. Since 1961, when Kennedy successfully fought to reorganize the Committee, liberals have held a slim 8-7 advantage. Thornberry, however, was a member of the majority, and the loss of his vote could prove disastrous for bills the Administration must get past the Committee...
Some seemed to have gentled with age. Dolores Ibarruri, 68, the firebrand who was known as La Pasionaria in the Spanish Civil War, now looks like someone's kind old grandmother. Others have made the change, at least outwardly, from Red Amazons to reasonably fashionable women: slim, tousle-haired Jeannette Vermeersch, wife of France's Red Boss Maurice Thorez, could have stepped out of the Galeries Lafayette, if not Dior. Once-dowdy Lotte Ulbricht, married to East Germany's lackluster President, could pass as a well-to-do provincial Hausfrau, and India's Aruna Asaf...
Technically, Moise Tshombe is still eligible to run for office in East Katanga. But since much of Tshombe's political strength lies with the Luanda tribe, now isolated in the new Lualaba province, his chances might be slim. Though Tshombe still has considerable popularity in Katanga, the Europeans there want no more adventures, and the flourishing Union Miniere asks only that it be allowed to mine copper undisturbed and continue earning $260 million a year for the Congo-more than twice the export revenue of the rest of the country. The secessionist spirit seems to be dying. Says...