Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thin welcoming crowd was not exactly eager to make him an honorary citizen. Minutes before Khrushchev's turboprop landed at Schonefeld Airport, an announcer drilled the spectators in a proper greeting: "Now, when our friend steps out of his plane, we will all cheer in unison, hip, hip, hurrah." When Nikita stepped out of his plane, all smiles, the crowd was silent and only the honor guard of soldiers shouted, officially. In contrast to President Kennedy's welcome by more than a million West Berliners, a scant 250,000 East Berlin factory workers, secretaries and schoolchildren, marching...
...lowering taxes on any such company that disposes of one-quarter of its shares to Canadians. To purchase 25% of all foreign-owned industry would cost Canadians an estimated $2 billion, and there is serious doubt that so much money could be raised in the country's thin capital market...
Trend spotters among TIME readers will recognize the increasing frequency of such stories, from the one about the too-thin walls of modern apartment houses to the spreading habit of the unaffectionate cocktailparty cheek-kiss. Such stories originate not in an event but in a discovery-a correspondent, a writer or an editor has an impression, based on his own experience, that an old tradition is no longer honored or that a new mannerism is in vogue. It is easy to confirm (or sometimes to knock down) his hunch by checking with our correspondents in all parts of the country...
Died. John Clifford Garrett, 55, founder (in 1936) and chairman of the $206 million Garrett Corp., who built his company on thin air, pioneering aircraft pressurization in World War II, and expanding with the industry until today Garrett supplies 2,000 aerospace products, including the oxygen gear for the Mercury astronauts; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills...
...Liggett & Myers has launched Lark with a "3-piece Keith filter," and Brown & Williamson is test-marketing Breeze filters with menthol and a "touch" of clove. American Tobacco has brought out menthol Montclair; last week Philip Morris started selling nationally its filter menthol Paxton, which comes in a thin plastic "humidor" case. Launching each new brand costs some $10 million, but most of them seem to burn out quickly nowadays. Among the recent failures: R. J. Reynolds' Brandon, Philip Morris' Commander, American Tobacco's menthol Riviera, Brown & Williamson's Kentucky Kings...