Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European Free Trade Association partners at EFTA's conference of ministers in Geneva; the partners have been complaining loudly against the 15% surcharge, may issue an ultimatum that Britain either drop it or get out of EFTA. Though British financial leaders had been hoping for a 5% trim in the surcharge this month, they are now talking about a 2½% reduction to take effect in April...
...Geneva meeting of EFTA's consultative committee and at next month's meeting of EFTA's ministerial council. Largely because Britain has been shocked into realizing that EFTA's death would badly damage its own trade drive, the British are expected to at least trim the surcharge within the next few months...
After that crisis, Wife amiably describes how a fighting-trim bachelor becomes a fat, happy benedict. Lemmon's lady smothers him with love and stuffs him with pasta until he has rings under his eyes and a bulge over his belt. Dragging his paunch through the men's-club swimming pool, he makes the mere act of floating seem a wry comment on the leaden responsibilities of marriage. Even Bash Brannigan evolves into a folksy domestic series called The Brannigans. Finally, Lemmon rebels. Both he and Bash decide to dispose of their mates by dumping them (Brrrp! Blasp...
Louis XIII furniture is dark, heavy and austere, and as such has much in common with massive Spanish cabinetry, which is also coming back into vogue. Both mix well with the trim structural look of modern furnishings. Painter Pierre Soulages took a fancy to Louis XIII, and Manhattan Art Collector and Banker Robert Lehman uses it to accent his apartment. Dior's top designer, Marc Bohan, redecorated his apartment in the period. "I like things simple, austere even," he says. "It's my style. Also the soft, neutral colors of Louis Treize suit me." As different a type...
...Calif., opened this week and out rolled the first U.S. entry in a rising competition among international planemakers. The competition is a struggle to win the huge potential market for short-to medium-range jets for the world's airlines. The U.S. plane is the DC-9, a trim, red-white-and-blue craft that Douglas has rushed out a month ahead of schedule. And just in time, too: the British twin-jet BAC One-Eleven has been flying away with the orders...