Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...posters appeared all over Israel: HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO SHOW THE FOLKS BACK HOME WHAT ISRAEL'S ELEVENTH INDEPENDENCE DAY WAS LIKE. The smaller type advertised a 7½-minute documentary film presenting the highlights of Israel's Independence Day celebrations for the benefit of visiting members of B'nai B'rith. The souvenir film package sold briskly for 80 Israeli pounds ($37 at tourist rates) until a visitor from England made a startling discovery last week: the background music for much of the film was Sir Arthur Sullivan's fine old hymn...
Under the long, lemon-tinted gown and the towering headdress of aigrette plumes, the tall, tawny body is heavier now. The warm eyes seem smaller, softer, in a face fleshed with age. But the quick, bright smile is as vivid as ever; the remembered throb of her voice still husks the rafters-a rising, clear-toned shout. At 53, Josephine Baker, the supple emigre from St. Louis who sailed into the heart of Paris on the high old tides of the '20s, is still a top banana of the boulevards. It is three years since her last "retirement...
Safety First. Since the 1955 accident, sponsors of les vingt-quatre heures have plowed more than $600,000 into track improvements. Spectators can now watch from the protection of concrete tiers. Engines are top-limited at three liters' displacement (smaller than that of a Rambler), and no driver can be on the track longer than three hours at a time without relief. All cars must have windshields and wipers. But manufacturers, in their frantic search for speed, devised windshields that flip down at high speeds to avoid extra wind resistance. As they well know, a victory at Le Mans...
...veterans' pension reform bill that could save the taxpayers an estimated $12 billion over the next four decades.The Administration-backed bill adopts a sliding-scale principle for determining how big a pension an elderly or partially disabled veteran may draw; the bigger his income from other sources, the smaller his pension. But, fearful of annoying veterans' organizations, the committee balked at an Administration proposal to count social security payments as income. The reforms apply only to future cases: no veteran now drawing a federal pension will get a cent less under the bill...
...formation of blackening carbon on the inside; the lamp's high operating temperature incinerates dirt that touches the outside. Because of their small size, the new lamps can be used to throw exact lighting patterns for show windows, building facades, sports fields, airports. They will permit development of smaller, more effective lighting fixtures, are cheaper to operate...