Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What else?--there is still more carried in this slim blue frame. (For there are no ads, beyond an announcement that Chapman and Gilder are available for Limited Speaking Engagements.) Morton Halperin of the Center for International Affairs revives the notion of limited war tersely and persuasively; Edward S. Cabot alternates the obvious and the original in a highly irritating fashion in an article on Ghana. And, perhaps inevitably, the editors enjoy a little Democrat-baiting, in Cabot's indictment of Soapy Williams' behavior in Africa, in a collection of silly anecdotes called "The Political Notebook...
...shows old slapstick silent films to guests ("Walter thinks nobody should have to be adorable right after dinner," says Jean). The adjacent living room?like every other room in the house, half the niches and all the floors?is filled with books, everything from Boccaccio to Beerbohm, plus a slim volume called Per Piacere, Non Mangiate Le Margherite (Please Don't Eat the Daisies). In the room next door, a television set peers out from the interior of an enormous iron stove, symbolically lighting no fires in this particular house. High above it all, bolted to the eaves...
...last week Laos' torpid, dusty administrative capital of Vientiane swarmed with crowds-but not in panic. Along the banks of the slow-moving Mekong River there were foot races, boxing and wrestling matches. At night the temple courtyards were filled with slim girls dancing to haunting flute music. A torchlight parade wound through the city, and everyone agreed that the most magnificent floats were those of the Royal Laotian Army...
...Grow Old? Every girl is tight-corseted with the propaganda that she must have a slim, svelte figure, no matter what her natural body build or bone structure. She may react to this either by trimming down mercilessly and suffering near starvation; or she may surrender to the neurotic pleasures of overeating?all the time rationalizing that the trouble is in her glands (which it almost never is). Another deliberate anxiety builder is the slogan, "Why grow old?" It introduces a prescription containing a teaspoonful of wisdom, such as the values of exercise and a balanced diet, diluted...
Many dealers complain bitterly that Detroit has overproduced both in variety of models and cars, forced them to take more cars than they need so that the giants can outsell their competitors. Dealers point to their own slim earnings and to General Motors' 8% net profit last year. "When it became apparent we were in trouble," complains Denver's Bob Jones, "I went to the Ford people and tried to pull this dealership down to 75 units a month. But they said no, that I had to sell 160 new cars and 40 trucks each month. They...