Word: slims
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Powell is indeed sprightly for his age. Slim (6 ft., 155 lbs.) and well-conditioned (smoking only an occasional cigarette and preferring a glass of milk to a cocktail), Powell is an avid hunter of duck and quail and still likes to join his wife Josephine in an energetic game of tennis. Says he: "I used to play golf, but I married a tennis player." At work he is tireless, appearing at his desk around 8 o'clock every morning, including Saturdays and Sundays. Longevity runs in the family: his widowed father remarried seven years ago and is still flourishing...
...privately urged that Jean Monnet, the French architect of the Common Market, be honored instead. Though relations between West Germany and Eastern Europe have greatly improved, Brandt regards his policy of reconciliation as only half begun, and he has a point. The Bundestag, where his party has only a slim majority, has not yet ratified the nonaggression pacts with Warsaw and Moscow. Franz Josef Strauss, a power in the opposition Bavarian Christian Social Union, urged only last week that Brandt abandon his Ostpolitik and "return things to where they were...
Prescient Palmist. Of the stories, Enoch Soames is the better one. Soames (Richard Kiley) is a minor minor poet pickled in absinthe who harbors a paranoiac conviction: people who ignore his slim volumes, The Ultimate Nil and Fungoids, are turning their backs on a late 19th century Milton. He desperately yearns to know posterity's judgment and makes a pact with the devil to spend a few hours 100 years hence in the library of the British Museum. There he finds that the brief and only mention of the name Enoch Soames is in a short story...
...extra point decided yet another for Columbia, as the Lions got by Rutgers, 17-16, Saturday. Columbia had already lost to Harvard and beat Princeton on conversion attempts. The Lions managed to block a fourth-quarter point-after kick to provide the slim margin...
...wall that was manned by armed guards. Even if Jackson could have somehow scaled that first wall, he would only have made it back to the main yard and would still have another wall between himself and the free soil of Point San Quentin. "Two chances," Fred said, "Slim and none...