Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is an appropriately slim, trim, red-white-and-blue booklet issued in 1958 by the Royal Canadian Air Force, consisting of two exercise systems known as "5BX" (Five Basic Exercises) for men and "XBX" (Ten Basic Exercises) for women. First offered to the public about three years ago, the manual has been a snowballing bestseller that has so far sold 650,000 copies in the U.S. (600,000 in Canada, 130,000 in Australia and New Zealand...
Because Samborski could only hold the position for seven years before retiring, some observers at first felt his chances to succeed Thomas D. Bolles were slim. The prolonged committee debate, however, may work in his favor, as the committee apparently hasn't been able to agree on a younger...
Onto TIME'S own mail desk recently dropped a letter from a reader who, while granting that he can never catch up with Colonel Carter, aims to become the leading collector of autographed TIME covers outside the U.S. He is Randall Salas, a slim, 17-year-old high school senior in Caracas, Venezuela. Randall, who was born in Curaçao and speaks English, Spanish, Dutch and Papiamento (a Caribbean lingua franca), started his collection only in 1959. But he had a head start: his father, an insurance broker, has been reading TIME since 1935, and had saved many...
...bowling alleys and on ski slopes made of plastic, Japanese will soon be able to play at one of Japan's most modern resorts, the San-ai Hotel on Hokkaido Island, just an hour's plane ride from Tokyo. Work on the resort began last week when slim and tireless Kiyoshi Ichimura, 62, got permission from his backers to go ahead with the ambitious project. Already one of Japan's fastest rising businessmen, whose nine companies sold $61 million worth of goods last year, Ichimura believes that "to stand still is to lose ground...
...Stuart Hughes, professor of History and a candidate last fall for the United States Senate, has called it "almost incredible" that he spent eight months on a campaign "whose chances were slim from the start and whose electoral results were both perplexing and disappointing...