Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Young things, they were slim and hungry and smiling, because the smart ones don't eat regularly the day before the contest...
...heat generated by the issue during the past week will likely make the Stadium a topic of discussion at today's Corporation meeting, but the chances of a dramatic alteration of past policy appear to be slim. Nothing has really changed since President Pusey wrote his latest letter refusing use of the facility to the Patriots; the unfavorable response to the letter was not unexpected by University officials, one of whom commented before the letter was sent, "We're going to get knocked: we'll just have to sit there and take...
Nonetheless, the chances that Israel will succeed in undermining Nasser look slim. Last autumn, Nasser banished Ali Sabry, his only evident rival, from the government hierarchy. Diplomats feel that Nasser is now definitely in command. Indeed, he had encouraging news from neighboring Libya, where Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, leader of the coup that ousted King Idris last fall, formally installed himself as Prime Minister. Gaddafi is firmly in Nasser's camp. Libya's barely tapped oil wealth can be a real asset to Nasser...
...building any plane, and the 747's major troubles now seem to be over come. Two weeks ago, the FAA gave the plane an airworthiness certificate, the final approval needed to fly passengers. Recalling a recent conversation with Pan Am's best-known director, Charles Lindbergh, Halaby says: "Slim Lindbergh and I were sitting in the 747, and we decided to list the greatest civil air transports of all time. We picked the German JU-52, the DC-3, the DC-6, the 707 family of jets, the DC-8s ?and this airplane...
...supersonophile." He seems confident that the plane's problems can be solved. Pan Am Director Lindbergh has questioned the SST as a potential despoiler of the environment. Unless there is a breakthrough in design, the SST will spread a sonic boom beneath its path up to 50 miles wide. "Slim and I are in constructive debate on the SST," says Halaby...