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Wellhead to Pump. Always an innovator, Ludwig devised ways to spare dollars and swell loads by welding tankers instead of riveting them, launching them sideways, and using thinner decks. In all, Kure has built 2,200,000 tons of shipping for Ludwig, including the 114,500-ton supertanker Universe Apollo. When the tanker market became swamped, Ludwig last year subleased the yard, but Japanese aides still hold in awe the thrusting man who, as one says, "knew every detail and kept our brains spinning...
...fall, Ozawa will be one of the first guest conductors of the Montreal Symphony at the new Place des Arts. Before each concert he eats rice and Japanese vegetables, lest he lose weight and look even younger. "On your beefsteak I lose my appetite," he worries. "I would grow thinner...
...except in emergencies, up-to-date obstetrical surgeons usually make a curved cut across the lower part of the pelvis (technically, a laparotrachelotomy, or transverse cervical section) into a thinner part of the uterus. This carries far less risk of damage to the womb itself or to other organs -and, incidentally, leaves the woman free to wear a bikini afterward without embarrassment...
...proud" of them, the President said. 10 a.m. Met with 80 or so members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and their wives in the White House Rose Garden, managed to chuckle at 92 cartoons featuring John F. Kennedy, jokingly told the cartoonists that he is really "much thinner" and much less hairy-headed than they had depicted him. 10:30 a.m. Delivered, at Arlington Cemetery, a speech extolling Ignace Jan Paderewski, the great Polish pianist and patriot who died in the U.S. in 1941. Occasion: the dedication of a plaque marking Paderewski's crypt. Paderewski was buried...
...Basilica, accepting his $160,000 Peace Prize (earmarked for charity) from the Swiss-Italian Balzan Foundation, next day turned up in the Quirinal Palace, where Italian President Antonio Segni presented Balzan awards to other cultural leaders. As he rode through Rome in an open car, the Pontiff -looking thinner than usual-was hailed by crowds crying "Viva! Viva...