Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Appointments to stay on are only brief respites; chances for tenure are slim. "They were quite blunt about it," says a young Harvard Ph.D. who was recently awarded an assistant professorship. "They said my appointment was as terminal as cancer." The result is bitterness toward the System. "I personally feel sold out," concludes Tom Lifson, 23, a sometime antiwar organizer now studying for a Ph.D. "All this time we were told how important it was for us to go to graduate school and how much we could do for ourselves and the country...
...Slim Years Ahead
...current issue, "follows the cult of shabbiness." For instance: the prince has taken to the fashionably wider tie without realizing that it is out of proportion to the narrow lapels and boxy shape of his '50s-style jacket. "As for his trousers, at the bottom they are the slim shape that every young man was demanding a decade ago, but at the top theyare as baggy as an old man's-inelegant at both ends." Dallas admits, however, that perhaps the prince is consciously trying to "adjust to the day of the common man." A deliberately disarranged pocket...
Harvard did even worse in the draft. Surprise. Richie Szaro was probably the only Crimson senior with a real shot at being drafted, but he was overlooked. Other possibilities, however slim, such as Pete Varney, Rick Frisbie, and Gary Farneti, obviously didn't dazzle the pro scouts...
NEARLY a decade ago, a slim, crew-cut Navy test pilot clambered into a tiny space capsule named Freedom 7 and was hurled by a Redstone rocket into a high, arcing 302-mile flight over the Atlantic. For the U.S., that brief, 15-min-ute suborbital ride began the era of manned space flight. Next week, his lean body practically unchanged by the passage of years, the same pioneering astronaut will command NASA's fourth manned assault on the moon. At the age of 47, Captain Alan B. Shepard Jr. is the oldest American* ever to soar into space...