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...anything, and it certainly does among the matrons and patrons of the Met, Gentele should be able to match Rudi Bing and endure for quite a while himself. He is a man of slender elegance with a graceful manner and clear, purposeful blue eyes. His wife Marit, a trim, Nordic-blonde who could have stepped out of a Bergman movie, is fond of pointing out that Goran has a master's degree in political science. He may need it. A hail fellow does not necessarily guarantee a well...
Razor-cut, trim, taut, essentially modest but nonetheless more self-confident than at any point in his political career, Muskie understands quite clearly where that speech has left him. There is nothing coy about his ambition. He wants to be President, and he is working hard at it. For months he has been assembling a broad group of advisers, experts in foreign policy, economics, weapons systems, budgets, social programs. In his shadow Cabinet. Cyrus Vance serves as Secretary of State, Walter Heller as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Paul Warnke as Secretary of Defense...
...service aboard a destroyer in the Battle for Leyte Gulf, Zumwalt also commanded a river gunboat that sailed up the Yangtze River to help disarm Japanese forces in Shanghai. There he met an attractive White Russian girl from Manchuria, Mouza Coutelais-du-Roche, who is now his wife. Trim and fit in body, Zumwalt is also a disciplined logician. He won speech and debating laurels at the Naval Academy (where he ranked 34th in his class of 615, but 275th in conduct). An eclectic thinker, he prefers reading contemporary political, sociological and technical works to military history. At the National...
...those moments occurred on Saturday, while Barbara, a housewife, was nearing the end of a tearful recital about her husband. Suddenly she turned to a trim, young, redheaded girl, and said: "Frances, I wish I could be strong like you." Her envy was understandable. In the first two days of the encounter, Frances had seemed confident, sensitive to the problems of others, familiar with psychiatric jargon, and articulate almost to the point of being glib...
...workers in Donnelly's largest department asked for raises last May, management suggested that the money would have to be saved; within three weeks the employees found ways to save the company more than twice as much, chiefly by cutting purchasing and materials costs and altering production procedures to trim waste...