Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deed poll (a simple court procedure costing $6) to aggravate Conservative Party Leader Edward ("Ted") Heath. Since both Edward Heaths are running in suburban London's Bexley constituency, the voters may be confused. The original Edward Heath is not amused. In 1966 he won Bexley by a slim margin and if enough voters are befuddled by the prank, Ted could be in trouble. Even Wilson urged Lambert/ Heath to withdraw...
...suits against local governments but also would allow potential recipients of housing aid to sue in either federal or state courts to overturn local rules. Some opponents of the idea contend that Washington lacks authority to override local land controls. Though chances for adoption in this election year seem slim, the proposal will at least focus attention on the conflict between the freedom of localities to organize as they see fit and the social needs of the poor...
...wealthy Berlin manufacturer, she might have passed her life as a dabbler in the arts except for the Nazis. They forced her to flee to Sweden in 1940, and the experience turned her into a serious poet. "Writing was my mute outcry," she once said, and in her six slim volumes she evoked the tragedy of the Jewish people with what the Nobel committee termed "lyrical laments of painful beauty." Her style was unrhymed, psalmlike, rich in symbolism and metaphor, as in O the chimneys...
...bringing it to the Senate floor this week. Oregon's Mark Hatfield and South Dakota's George McGovern are pushing for an amendment that would cut off military authorizations for Cambodia immediately, and for South Viet Nam by the end of 1970. Chances for that measure seem slim. More likely to pass next week is an amendment that would cut off funds for the Cambodian mission by July 1?which is precisely when the President promised the troops would be out of Cambodia anyway...
...cause his own and has apparently given up trying to reach a compromise. A new negotiator, charged by the White House to bargain for a compromise, might find the Japanese less adamant. Even so, the chances of reaching any agreement before the Mills bill passes Congress are discouragingly slim. Both Tokyo and Washington now insist that the other side must make the first concession...