Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shades of Ben. The three professors plenipotentiary have written 25 books among them, are unabashed intellectuals in countries that respect scholars or ideologists. Outwardly, they are as dissimilar as their specialties. Trim (5 ft. 11¼ in., 155 Ibs.), athletic George Kennan is blunt, analytical, professional, and a deeply moral man who agonizes over the increasingly "sterile" clash of East and West. Towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Ken Galbraith is a vastly engaging, vastly self-assured pragmatist; given to heavily ironic wisecracks, he likes to be taken for an ogre, and in diplomacy, he claims, he has had to make...
...years, skiing was a sport for sun burned huskies in low-slung plus fours and a handful of hardy girls willing to bundle up like a G.I. blanket roll. Now the whole shape of skiing has been changed by a trim, cozy and inordinately sexy import from Germany: stretch pants. Many a girl who did not know a slalom from a sitzmark has discovered that stretch pants round out her personality in a fetching manner and make a skiing weekend an opportunity rather than an ordeal; men linger on the trails to see rather than ski as the girls...
Back home, U.S. Congressmen study the prevailing winds-and trim their political sheets accordingly. Last week, after a three-month vacation, the 87th Congress was preparing to reconvene in Washington, and its members talked about their barometric readings...
Bargain Basement. Home buyers can expect a better break next year. The builders intend to trim home prices from this year's median of $15,100, to $14,950 in 1962. Behind the decision to cut prices are several factors: stiff competition, fears that the higher-priced market is saturated, and expectations that new FHA rules permitting smaller down payments will attract more lower-income families. More efficient building methods and increasing reliance on prebuilt parts will help bring prices down...
...requires no capital investment by him. Beginning next month, France's government-owned Renault auto company will start building the Rambler Classic in its Belgian plant. Major parts will be shipped from A.M.C.'s U.S. plants, but the Common Market car will have more subdued, European-style trim and will be dubbed "Rambler by Renault...