Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other game against an outsider, Princeton faces Colgate. The bookies rate Colgate as slim two-point favorites, but they must not have been watching Princeton last week, when Dartmouth gained over 500 yards against it, or the week before, when Columbia picked up over 400 yards. It's all very simple: Princeton does not have a good team this year...
...Senate, wealthy G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, a longtime (1949-60) former Governor of Michigan, has made his name, face and green bow tie familiar fixtures from Aetna to Zeeland. Despite the recognition gap, the Detroit News last week published a poll showing that Griffin has established a splinter-slim, 51% -to-48% lead over Williams...
...West's China-watchers awaited with fascination the reaction in Hanoi. The pickings were slim, because Ho Chi Minn's propagandists were largely silent. Yet Hanoi's official newspaper last week obliquely endorsed the concept of a united front of the world's Communist parties for aiding North Viet Nam in the war. Since the united-front concept represents the Soviet view, some experts interpreted Hanoi's statement as a tentative attempt to escape Peking's go-it-alone policy. North Korea's latest statement was more direct: it ripped the Red Chinese...
...When two strong men stake their claims to a strumpet and a stallion, the enmity between them can be the stuff that fleshes out the bony structure of the very best westerns. But in this film, a mulish scenario puts a frustrating checkrein on the excitement, and it is slim pickings for Marlon Brando, playing a saddle tramp whose dream is to become a horse breeder, and John Saxon, portraying a Mexican bandit chieftain who has a girl (Anjanette Comer) up for grabs in his lair...
Died. John Charles Herndon, 55, Idaho Democratic gubernatorial candidate, a relatively unknown lawyer whose slim hopes of winning in November increased last month when State Senator Don W. Samuelson defeated incumbent Governor Robert Smylie for the Republican nomination; of injuries suffered when a light plane taking him to a political meeting crashed; near Stanley, Idaho...