Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Near the Flash Point? For all his professed desire to parley, nothing Khrushchev said last week suggested a new basis for discussion of anything-except his own demands that East Germany be given total control over access to Berlin. Britain's slim and elegant Foreign Secretary, Lord Home, thought it necessary to caution his own people about being prematurely relieved by the prospects of talks: "It is really no good looking on the word negotiation as an incantation that can be repeated as if it might solve everything," he said. "So far, in all our contacts with the Russians...
...treaty of Versailles forbade Germans from building a powered air force; so future Luftwaffe pilots learned to fly in engineless craft. In the process, they perfected soaring techniques and wing designs that have influenced sailplaning all over the world. Today's sailplanes look and act like birds: slim of fuselage, with wings so disproportionately long that the best craft have glide ratios of 40 to 1, or 40 miles of reach for each mile of altitude. World sailplane distance record: 535 miles...
Until the slim-winged Eastern Air Lines Electra was 20 minutes northwest of Miami one sunbright morning last week, the dark, bushy-browed little man in the front seat seemed to be brooding silently on the dangers of flight. Then he came to life. He beckoned to Stewardess Joan ("Casey") Jones and sent her for more cream for his coffee. When Casey returned, the passenger was gone. Across the aisle, another passenger pointed to the cockpit door. Casey rattled the handle, kicked the door lightly, could not budge it. She put the waxed cup on the floor and said: "When...
...Buchanan. 40, and snapped: "Turn this airplane around." Unruffled, Buchanan banked the $3,500,000 ship into a wide turn calculated to alert the radar watch on the ground. "All right, now," Buchanan drawled, "what heading do you want me to fly?" "Two hundred ten degrees," said the slim air pirate. As Buchanan set his course, he knew he was flying toward Cuba...
...cuts, tricky scarf necklines. Even Dior's Marc Bohan, who tends to flout the trends, does away with the bulky silhouette; although he concentrates less on S-lines than his colleagues, Bohan's fashions are the tightest, slenderest, most feminine of all. His decidedly youthful designs feature slim, high-bosomed bodices, gently flared skirts, wide cinch-belts and narrow shoulders...