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Several shades tanner and half an inch slimmer in the waist than when he left Washington six weeks before, the President was "delighted" with his stay in Colorado and, according to his physician, "never felt better." But his vacation had been only a partial escape from the cares and chores of office. During the six weeks, he received 152 official visitors, signed 111 bills and 318 other state documents...
...dress and a sunbonnet . . not this trash." Said Oswald West, 80, a former governor of Oregon: "The pioneer mothers would rise up out of their graves and pin a horse blanket around the hussy." "The pioneers," snapped Frank Jenkins, editor of the Klamath Falls Herald & News, "liked 'em slimmer...
AFTER a three-year feast, machine-tool builders are facing slimmer rations. Although civilian contracts are still coming in, a drop in defense business has cut total new orders 10%. With capacity expanded 25%, record output has whittled down backlogs from 23½ to 7-½ months' work...
Across the U.S. last week, more people than ever were bulging with excess fat-and ready to admit it. Forty-five percent of the women said so in a Gallup poll, 25% of the men. (Not that men are really slimmer, say doctors; they are just slower to face the fat facts.) By their own say-so, the overweight add up to a whopping 34 million-or a good many more than the 25 million figure which has sometimes been accepted as a rough estimate by life insurance companies...
Chances are slimmer in the other events. In the 100, Dave Hedberg must face Frank Chamberlain and Donovan--who is the fastest Yale sprinter in almost ten years. In the 200-yard breast-stroke, Ralph Zani and Ken Emerson will have to beat record-breakers Smith an O'Connor...