Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whitten's role as leader of the group came as no surprise. A conservative and long-time opponent of federal civil rights bills, Whitten had fought to trim every appropriation bill this year (except one providing for increasing Interstate Highway construction, much of it, coincidentally, in the South...
High Expectations. Such plans may trim Boeing's hopes for a mass-travel market that would have some 450 of the new planes in service by 1976. Then, too, unforeseen competition now looms from Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas, whose "airbuses," originally designed for shorter hops, could well be stretched in range and payload. Still, Boeing expects that history will repeat itself. When the last "new era" in flight came in the late 1950s, the then-new jetliners expanded air travel beyond even the most optimistic expectations...
...industry and superthin wires across the windshield to take the place of the traditional radio antenna that usually rises from a fender. The big Oldsmobiles are in for the biggest changes. They will remain big, but their pudgy '68 bodies will give way to more severe trim and styling...
...Confederacy and the Border States nominated the Republican ticket, and will shape its campaign. The winds from Dixie make Hubert Humphrey the Democratic pacesetter and will similarly trim his sails into November. Thus, to the naked eye, the South appears to have risen again. A closer look does not quite bear out the more sweeping assumptions about Southern power, but Dixie has indisputably earned the attention it gets...
...Nixon, who won fewer than 1% of the Jewish votes in a recent Michigan survey (v. 20% for Rocky), thereby threatened to sap his appeal to that group even further. His attempts at small talk fall flat. On a Portland television program, he told listeners his secret for staying trim. "I eat proteins," he said. "I eat a lot of cheese. Cottage cheese. I eat cottage cheese until it runs out my ears. And one thing I do that makes it not too bad is I put ketchup on it. I learned it from my grandmother...