Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passionate Sightseer, though a slim volume, gives us sharp insight into all these aspects of this fascinating wit, scholar and sightseer. To make all his visual reference perfectly clear, the publishers have included extensive photographs of the master-works and places discussed...
Talking to a crowd spread across the hillside at Guthrie Center, Iowa last week, Richard Nixon wanted the farmers to know that they are the last people he would hold responsible for the costly farm program. Fat farm surpluses that have kept farm profits so slim, said he, are the "product more of politics than of productivity. It is wrong to blame the farmer for the fact that Government illogically insisted upon unrealistic incentives to keep production up, while at the same time it conjured up bureaucratic controls in a futile attempt to keep production down...
...than the U.S., the Latin American nations have combined gross national products of only about one-eighth the U.S.'s. Latin American population keeps rising at a fast 2.6% annually, which pushes the per capita share of G.N.P. down-from a fat 4.1% increase in 1957 to a slim...
...Western horizon, two attractive candidates for office are being watched with interest: Rudd Smith, 40, the slim brunette daughter of Ruth Bryan Owen, who is campaigning for California's 21st District seat, a sprawling area that embraces half of Los Angeles and several bedroom valleys; and Maurine Brown Neuberger, 52, widow of Oregon's Dick Neuberger and a political virtuoso in her own right (three terms in the state legislature). In her campaign to succeed her husband in the Senate, Maurine is raising the political dust. Laments her opponent, former Republican Governor Elmo Smith: "I am running against...
Wearing shorts and slim jims, a Stratford, Ont. Festival troupe in the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s Studio Seven in Toronto last week began a rigorous 100 hours of rehearsal before the mast of H.M.S. Pinafore. Six weeks hence, the Gilbert & Sullivan classic will open a Canadian fall television season full of attractions that many a U.S. viewer will envy...