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...answer becomes understandable when the two fin-tailed monsters are identified. They were the first operational A-bombs ever built. "Little Boy," the slimmer of the two, was a duplicate of the 10-ft.-long, 9,000-lb. bomb that decimated Hiroshima. The 10,000-lb., spheroid "Fat Man," with its 5-ft. girth, crushed Nagasaki. Between them, the two bombs, each packing the punch of 20,000 tons of TNT, accounted for more than 200,000 casualties and dumped the world unceremoniously into the responsibilities of the nuclear...
...Kennedy will pick his fall suits. Another firm was making 30 suits for a Texas tycoon. Thirty Savile Row firms now have agents in the U.S., and some do 90% of their summer business with American tourists. Under pressure from such lucrative customers, most will now cut suits along slimmer American lines, and some have even consented to make drainpipe trousers devoid of "turnups" (cuffs...
...Savile Row for tailoring that is as smooth, in one cutter's words, as "a millpond in a heat wave." For it is hard to resist tailors whose purpose, avows Gerald Abrahams, chairman of the British Men's Wear Guild, is to "make you look stronger and slimmer and younger and richer...
...objections) for repeal of 10% excise tax on travels, telegrams and local telephone service. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson called vacationing Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson before the debate, heard from his fellow Texan what repeal would mean to the Treasury: loss of $750 million in tax revenue, a slimmer surplus in fiscal 1961. As the $4 billion tax bill rolled to passage, Johnson and Budget Guardian Byrd got unexpected support from Pennsylvania's free-spending Joe Clark, who candidly noted the Democratic Party "cannot go into the coming campaign as a party of fiscal irresponsibility...
...high-fee portraiture and many other of his paintings of ladies, Dutch-born Paris Artist Kees Van Dongen, 83, has never made a secret of his profitable penchant to "paint women slimmer than they are and their jewels fatter." In the '20s, Dongen enhanced this effect in the fashion of the age, often painted his women with short-shingled hair, excessive eye and lip makeup. Making a small sensation in Manhattan last week, U.S. Designer Norman Norell trotted out his fall collection, featuring elegant divided skirts. He expressed his due appreciation for his show's success...