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...concessions designed to modernize productive equipment and lure new industry into the areas of heavy unemployment. Added to sizable previous concessions to industry that he had already granted since taking over as Chancellor last July, Maudling hoped that his new budget incentives would put the economy in fighting trim by next April-which is about the time when Britain is likely to go to the polls to choose its next government...
Neon & Sewage. A symbol of Tahoe's troubles is an eleven-story hunk of hardware with anodized aluminum trim called Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort Hotel, which opened for business last week. Three hundred invited guests showed up for 24 hectic hours of freeloading fun in the public rooms and the gadget-strewn suites (each with its own bar). Upstairs was a great big polynesian-style restaurant, and downstairs was a great big gambling casino; across the street was another casino run by Reno's Bill Harrah and featuring Comedienne Phyllis Diller. Who could ask for anything...
...Bell was the first correspondent to discover and report that the real head of the junta was not Mohammed Naguib, but an unknown colonel named Nasser. Now, seeing Nasser for the first time in nine years. Bell methodically noted his grey temples and greying hair and a figure as trim as ever. Weight? Nasser laughed: "I don't think anyone has asked me that since the last time you did. I think it's 85 kilos [187 lbs.] And I think I'm still 182 centimeters [6 ft.] tall...
...sideline at the Chicago Daily News Relays, trim, balding Track Coach Mihaly Igloi stood with a slip of paper clenched tightly in his fist. Scrawled on the paper was a series of digits: 1:02, 2:04, 3:09, 4:14, 5:19, 6:24, 7:29, 8:31. These were the times at which jaunty Jim Beatty, 28, the best U.S. distance runner and holder of the world indoor record for the mile, was to complete each segment of a precisely planned assault on the indoor two-mile record (8 min. 34.4 sec.) held by New Zealand...
This is an appropriately slim, trim, red-white-and-blue booklet issued in 1958 by the Royal Canadian Air Force, consisting of two exercise systems known as "5BX" (Five Basic Exercises) for men and "XBX" (Ten Basic Exercises) for women. First offered to the public about three years ago, the manual has been a snowballing bestseller that has so far sold 650,000 copies in the U.S. (600,000 in Canada, 130,000 in Australia and New Zealand...