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...funnel-sleeved line highlighted the "pyramid waist," high in front and low in back. Designers Norman Norell and James Galanos achieved the long-torso effect by dropping the waistline well down to the hip. Designers expect that the wandering waistline will make women's figures look slimmer. Manufacturers expect that it will fatten retail-sales figures, which now top $10 billion a year for women's wear...
...research, Hooton also discovered that Americans are not only growing taller than ever before, but also staying slimmer when they are young and getting fatter as they age. Hooton also found that most men decrease slightly in their height after reaching maturity...
Lipsticked, mascaraed and tilting at a precarious angle ("How do they walk in these things?"), Actor Lemmon digs out most of the laughs in the script. As for Marilyn, she's been trimmer, slimmer and sexier in earlier pictures...
...concentration on closing the military-missile gap, the Eisenhower Administration neglected the less pressing, less obvious challenge of space. While the Russians were working on big rockets capable of carrying hefty objects into outer space, U.S. missilemen were working on lighter, slimmer, more "sophisticated" missiles-marvels of engineering, but designed for earthly military tasks. Only in mid-1955, as part of the U.S.'s International Geophysical Year effort, did the U.S. at long last undertake its first serious satellite project, and even then the Eisenhower Administration, deciding to keep space research "peaceful" and separate from ballistic-missile programs, settled...
...million U.S. workers-nine out of every ten-1959's first pay envelope was a little slimmer than 1959's last one. Reason: the social security nibble, which started out at 1% of the first $3,000 of pay back in 1937, increased at year's beginning from 2½% of the first $4,200 of pay to 2¼% of the first $4,800 (up $25.50 to $120 a year for a worker who makes $4,800 a year or more). But when 1959's first social security checks go out in the mail, they...