Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best possibility for peace at the moment seems to lie in an interim settlement that would involve reopening the Suez Canal. The chances of success, however, are particularly slim if the Russians decide to use their friendship treaty to provide additional arms to Egypt. In what was meant as a reciprocal warning to Moscow, President Nixon at his press conference last week said that such shipments "can only mean a new arms race and could greatly jeopardize the chances for peace...
George Bernard Shaw once called him the most beautiful human being he had ever seen. Aldous Huxley said that listening to him was like listening to "a discourse of the Buddha." For two decades the ascetically slim, darkly handsome young mystic from India was virtually considered to be a new Messiah by members of the Order of the Star in the East, the society built around him. Then suddenly in 1929, Jiddu Krishnamurti dissolved the order and repudiated the very idea of followers. "Truth is a pathless land," he said. "And you cannot approach it by any religion, any sect...
...struggle. In South Carolina, Republican Albert Watson blatantly pitched his gubernatorial campaign to racial fears. He was defeated by Democrat John West, who pledged a "colorblind" administration and appointed a black to a top advisory post. West's promises were rooted in more than altruism: political analysts attribute his slim victory margin to some 110,000 black voters. The altered arithmetic of South Carolina politics has even touched that prototype of the traditional Southern claghorn, Senator Strom Thurmond. Thurmond recently hired the former director of a black-voter registration project to run his home-state office in Columbia. Said...
...Treasury Secretary John Connally, a relentless persuader, to lead a hard-sell campaign on Capitol Hill. Hearings on the issue are scheduled to begin June 7, and there will be many dramatic confrontations before the final vote is taken, probably at the end of July. At the moment, a slim majority in Congress appears to favor the guarantee, though with much reluctance. As a price for it, California Senator Alan Cranston, a Democrat, demands the firing of Lockheed's chairman, president and board of directors. Indeed, Lockheed Chairman Daniel Haughton told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin last week that...
...beginning of the final race, Penn jumped out to a slim lead by continuing its starting longer than anyone else. After 400 meters, Navy pulled even with the Quakers and by 1200 meters the Midshipmen had the lead from that point...