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...Slimmer of Hope. Even campuses where protest had been shunned in the past were stirred by the Cambodian action. Science-oriented Caltech experienced its first antiwar demonstration when about 250 students rallied to hear professors assail the new U.S. involvement. Some students marched into downtown Pasadena, urging residents to protest by mail to the White House. An angrier mood prevailed at the University of Maryland, where some 500 students charged into the campus Air Force ROTC building after the Nixon speech. They burned uniforms, smashed typewriters, threw files out of windows and caused at least $10,000 worth of damage...
...plastic-surgery industry, and ugly wives by the hundreds are being remolded into well-proportioned visions of beauty. The deft use of vanity surgery, as the Brazilians call it, has provided women who flock in from all over the world with new faces, larger (or smaller) bosoms, slimmer hips and even bottoms sculpted into svelte contours more suitable for slacks...
Offensively, Harvard has suffered from poor shot selection this winter, and another weak shooting night against the Engineers will make the Crimson's chances of winning slimmer...
Lowe is sure that the company will gain. He figures that for every executive who keels over too soon, the company must spend twice his annual salary training a replacement. Additional savings are expected from slimmer expense accounts, since traveling executives can be expected to switch from steak and Scotch to Metrecal...
...Henri Matisse, Van Dongen rebelled against 19th century impressionism, filling his canvases with slashing brush strokes and raucous colors that enraged critics but fascinated gallery goers; and while some of the other Fauves went on to cubism, Van Dongen settled for becoming court painter ("I paint the women slimmer and their jewels fatter") for the international set, turning out glittering portraits of such luminaries as the Aga Khan and King Leopold of Belgium...