Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photograph produced in your May 19 issue of Emile Gauguin is a startling contrast to the slim young man, the Tahitian son of Paul Gauguin, whom I sketched in Tahiti upon my return from the Gambier Archipelago in 1929. My book, Manga Reva, The Forgotten Islands, is the story of that six months I spent in the Gambier Archipelago. The drawing is in the collection...
...days to complete the transaction. To ensure his return, his wife and children were held hostage by the Nazis. Brand's mission ended abruptly when he was seized by the British on the Syrian frontier, taken to Cairo and intensively questioned. When he finished his story, a tall, slim man-identified to him later as Lord Moyne. British Resident Minister in the Middle East-exclaimed: "What should I do with 1,000,000 Jews?"* Eichmann's German attorney. Dr. Robert Servatius, was quick to ask whether the British did not seem to regard the acceptance...
...solidly behind Political Science Professor John Tower, 35. They overhauled the wheezing G.O.P. organization, shunted off many old-line candidates and workers, recruited volunteers from among young businessmen and college graduates. Tower supporters manned ten telephones for twelve hours every day. The drive caught on. Last week, by a slim margin, Texans sent John Tower to Washington-their first Republican Senator since Reconstruction days...
20th Century City. Architect Gruen, famed for spacious shopping centers (Eastland in Detroit) and a well-publicized zeal for turning downtown areas into car-free malls (Kalamazoo, Mich.), designed the slab-shaped buildings slim and high to take advantage of the island's Manhattan view and allow for landscaping. The lower buildings, varying in height and snaking along the island's length, would be topped with gardens and windbreaks for recreational facilities. The air-conditioned pedestrian concourse below would be sunlit (through glassed holes in the roof) and undulating to kill the monotony of long straight corridors...
Prospects seem slim for a debate between the Cuban Revolutionary Council and the senior Faculty members who recently criticized the Government's Cuban policy. There are two reasons: the professors are unenthusiastic, and the Cuban Revolutionary Council is confused...