Word: trim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generations on end, the Greeks have gone into shipping as their natural calling, reassured by an ancient Hellenic proverb that the sea never freezes. Stavros Spyros Niarchos, 55, a trim, dapper Greek and a former brother-in-law of Magnate Aristotle Socrates Onassis, has carried on the tradition with flair and fabulous success, now owns a fleet of 74 tankers and freighters whose stacks bear the white "N" known in every port. But Niarchos, who became the world's largest independent shipowner, is ready to change course. Last week the word was out that his whole fleet...
There are even a few "tape-recorder youth," so named because they secretly tape Western jazz and popular music unavailable in Bulgaria. They affect trim Ivy League suits, drink "worker's brandy" (cheap, sweet vermouth), read such Western authors as Hemingway and J. D. Salinger, and furtively swap anti-regime jokes-despite the fact that Bulgaria alone among the European satellites still jails such jokers...
Penguin Puns. A self-taught, left-handed cartoonist, Pat Oliphant since 1955 had amused the 200,000 subscribers of the Advertiser, where he had moved up from copy boy. But he had long pined to pack up his pen and take it to the U.S. Both he and his trim, Dutch-born wife Hendrika (winner of the South Australian breaststroke championship in 1955) have boned up on American mores and politics against the day that one of Oliphant's endless job applications to U.S. papers paid...
Often, esthetics enters usefulness by the back door. The late Dr. Peter Schlumbohm used the chemical principle of filtration to make the trim Chemex coffeemaker, then simply placed a disk of filter paper inside a circular housing to make a new kind of fan. Spun by a motor, the rippling paper edges cast air through the rim by centrifugal force. A ban vivant of the first order, Schlumbohm made a rapid, but esthetic, champagne cooler just because he felt bachelors should not be caught short when unexpectedly entertaining women...
...Triennale, whose theme is leisure, the emphasis is on the lighthearted Yet the stocky curves of Finnish target rifles or rowboats, the unbulky, trim-below-the-hips power of an Italian Gilera 250-cc. motorcycle, or the sweep of Italian wicker rocking chairs show amply that much art is not made to hang on walls...