Word: trim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never have the G.M. system and the man that heads it been better mated than they are today. When Fred Donner, a trim (5 ft. 9 in., 152 lbs.) and reserved accountant, succeeded flamboyant Harlow Curtice as chief executive in 1958, many an outsider believed that G.M. had turned the driver's seat over to a walking calculator when what the job called for was a sales or production genius. In the three years since, Donner's electronic-quick brain has proved to be everything everyone said of it. (Says Donner of his numbers skill, in characteristic self...
...dining rooms of the colleges are high-ceilinged halls featuring walls similar to those on the outside with added oak trim and floors of slate bordered in polished wood. Both have stages for theatrical purposes. The rooms will be dominated by abstract chandeliers by Oliver Andrews. The only other art fixtures embodied in the original design are several abstract plaques which will intersect corners of the building. They are the work of Constantine Nivola, the artist who produced the graffito in the Quincy House Dining Room...
...Tall, trim, with grey hair, steely blue eyes and a strong nose and chin, Harkins looks every inch the professional soldier. Under him serve some 5,000 U.S. troops (soon to be raised to 8,000) including the U.S. Special Forces, who are all volunteers, all former paratroopers. Their elite status is marked by a bright green beret with a badge bearing crossed arrows and knife blade, and the legend De Oppresso Liber-roughly, To Liberate from Oppression. It is General Harkins' demanding job to fuse these few thousand experts with the willing but incompletely trained armed forces...
...Where is my wife?" asked S.A.O. Chief Raoul Salan when the Sante Prison gates closed on him in Paris last month. Slight, trim Lucienne Salan had been an army nurse when he met her in Indo-China in 1938, and when in 1944 Salan finally joined the Free French, she became an army driver. La Bibiche (little doe), the soldiers called the frail woman with the thin legs, the long face, the velvet eyes. But she was harder than she looked, and as her husband moved up the army ladder, she supervised his schedule, his appointments, his travel (avoid airplanes...
ragged suits-that had been the garb of the original rebels in 1954. and finishing with a trim military band and disciplined, well-drilled detachments clad in U.S.-style fatigue uniforms and armed with Communist-made recoilless rifles, machine guns, mortars and bazookas...