Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, Los Angeles as a team was third in batting (.274) and third in pitching (E.R.A 3.58). They held a slim margin of four over San Francisco in the all-important category of runs scored, and led the major leagues in RBI, triples, and stolen bases...
From the moment that former Army General James ("Slim Jim") Gavin assumed his duties as U.S. Ambassador to France last year, he came under snipers' fire at home and abroad. He did not speak French and did not know diplomacy, they said. As a World War II paratroop commander, a major general at 37, the Army's chief of Research and Development at 48, he was a contentious man who had quit the Army in 1958 because his views were rejected. How could such a man tiptoe among diplomats? Thus when Gavin's resignation was announced last...
...bravely into the outdoor ring at The Pines, the swank borscht-and-bagels resort where Liston was training for his Sept. 25 bout with World Champion Floyd Patterson. One after another, they were helped out. "In the morning, Willie Reddish asks who's got The Bear today," sighed "Slim" Jim Robinson, who has had difficulty lasting one round, "and I say, 'Don't tell me until after I've eaten. I want to enjoy my breakfast.' " Onetime Welterweight Champion Barney Ross watched Liston deck another sparring partner five times, wryly suggested that Trainer Reddish import...
Divorced. By Millie Perkins, 24, slim, hazel-eyed Hollywood actress, who scored a hit three years ago in The Diary of Anne Frank: Dean Stockwell, 26, stage (Compulsion) and screen (Sons and Lovers) actor; after two years of marriage, no children; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Santa Monica...
...crept down from the head of the stairs, where he had crouched like a small boy peeking at a grownups' ball, to be smothered in the embrace of celebrities and clients like Dancer Jeanmaire, Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes, Cosmetologist Helena Rubinstein. His designs, basically for the young and slim, are lean and tubular, shaped by precision seams, not spectacular but consistently the loveliest...