Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Camille Chamoun, 58, one of the world's handsomest chiefs of state, rounds out his six-year term in September and still has not rejected the idea of another. Trim, silver-haired, he took his law degree at the French Jesuit St. Joseph's University in Beirut, married a wife who is half English, half Lebanese and a Presbyterian. Chamoun himself, as tradition dictates for a Lebanese president, is a Roman Catholic of the Maronite sect. Elected as an ardent nationalist on a reform ticket, he stuck to Lebanon's customary neutral foreign policy until...
...nickel-nipping mood, the House voted $38,409,561,000 for defense-$212,614,000 more than President Eisenhower requested. Part of the extra money is to go for keeping the Army, Marine Corps, National Guard and Reserves at present manpower levels. The Administration had planned to trim uniformed manpower, e.g., the Army from 900,000 men to 870,000, in keeping with missile-age defense concepts...
...manpower, by cutting active forces, reserves and National Guard contingents. One offbeat item that could cut the budget to the tune of $10 billion: an efficient reconnaissance satellite that would keep the U.S. so well posted on the movements of any potential enemy that it might be able to trim its estimates of the losses to be suffered in surprise attacks...
...spotless Basel laboratories of the Swiss drug company Sandoz A.G. a short, trim scientist of 52 performed a strange experiment. Research Director Albert Hofmann meticulously dissolved five milligrams of white crystals in a test tube of water. Then, while tense assistants looked on, he swallowed the potion, lay down on a couch and waited. Within an hour Hofmann began tg report: "I am losing my normal bodily sensations . . . My perception of space and time is changing . . . Your faces appear strange . . ." Finally: "Now, as I close my eyes, I see a wonderful but indistinct kaleidoscopic train of visions. They are vividly...
...going on 44) is always in shape, always ready to throw punches for pay. So last week he simply packed his bag, flew to Louisville and on Derby Eve treated a race-wise crowd to a professional demonstration of ring-wise skill. Archie's snappy little imperial stayed trim as a movie star's toupee while he gave young (25) Besmanoff a painful ten-round boxing lesson. He won the decision handily...