Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sloop Trim. In public office for 44 of the past 46 years-six as Governor and 21 as Senator-Saltonstall reflected the Brahmin's distaste for the spectacular and the controversial. But few men have worked harder or more competently in the public interest...
...part-time guide into one of Thailand's biggest agencies, with 80 employees and a fleet of 20 buses and cars. Perhaps the most eminent Thai businesswoman of all is Mrs. Lursakdi Sombatsiri, owner and operator of Bangkok's biggest bus company, the White Bus Line. Trim, thirtyish Mrs. Lursakdi, a former Thai golf champion, inherited the company from her father, built it into one of the country's most progressive businesses. It provides workers with housing, healthy annual bonuses and profit sharing, has helped the emancipation of Thai women by hiring 80 of them to collect...
...vowing that "my experiences are better kept to myself," but soon changed her mind. Despite "discreet" objections by Jacqueline Kennedy, her recollections began in the December Ladies' Home Journal. There are some homey anecdotes, such as the one about President Kennedy asking her when she was going to trim John-John's long hair. "What could I say?" she writes. "I couldn't say that Mrs. Kennedy wanted it long." She must have let on, though, because the President winked and said, "I know. If anyone asks you, it was an order from the President...
...most of his effort would be directed toward shoring up the home front. To trim down the government's $180 million budget deficit, he promised a reduction in spending and a drive to reduce graft in the revenue service so that the Treasury would collect at least some of the estimated $350 million a year in duties that it now loses to smugglers. Burying the bombas, Marcos called on politicians to forget the recent bitter past and cooperate for the tasks ahead. "My intention," he declared, "is to harness all available talents and perhaps to appoint to the Cabinet...
...Nairobi. Soon after uhuru, the government of Jomo Kenyatta bought up thousands of acres in the white highlands-at fair prices but with no refusal-and turned the land over to land-hungry Kikuyu families as part of Kenyatta's political debt to the tribe. Down came the trim hedges and the lofty stands of trees that the English farmers had so cherished; up went ramshackle huts and fields of maize...