Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same thing CORE wants since 1927. I've sent open-occupancy legislation to our city council three times, and three times the Democrats have killed it. There are many things that need to be changed in our city, and you can help us. You can help me." Taut, trim Major General George Gelston, Baltimore's acting police commissioner, added his voice: "Look, I've only been a policeman since April, and I'm going to quit in September. All I want is to get the job done, and part of that job is maintaining the peace...
...many ways, Louis I. Kahn is architecture's favorite maverick. No trim glass and steel boxes for him. Kahn's vocabulary includes truncated towers, round arches, even domes. He was once one of the most promising pupils of French-born Architect Paul Phi lippe Cret, designer of Washington's Pan-American Union. At first glance, Kahn may seem like a Beaux-Arts architect, but at the age of 65, he has achieved near-divine status among today's architecture students...
Mortgage commitments are off by 20% in Chicago and Detroit, and Atlanta's Fulton Federal S & L has stopped promising to make future loans entirely. For lack of mortgage funds, Builder John R. Minchew of Annandale, Va., outside Washington, expects to trim his 100-house-a-year output by 25% in September. Savings banks and insurance companies have also cut back mortgage commitments sharply...
...Trophy Winner Richard William Kazmaier neatly straight-armed a pro draft ("With only one league, there was never that much money no matter how good you were"), opted for Harvard Business School. Now 35, his hair thinning slightly and his weight about ten pounds over his 171-lb. playing trim, Kazmaier figures he made the right choice. Last week American Machine and Foundry Co. made him a vice president and named him general manager of its Los Angeles-based Wen-Mac division, which makes toys, children's games and outdoor lighting systems...
...realm of sophisticated comedy. To mask weaknesses and justify the movie's title, Donen puts his camera to a series of Olympian trials, filming at dizzying angles through, under, or into the reflections of sunglasses, grillwork, optical tools, windshields, mirrors, table tops, television screens and the chromium trim of a Rolls-Royce. The cinematic busywork offers sporadic fun, but also suggests the unsteady posture of a show that always seems about to fall flat on its pretty face...