Word: trimmings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Starkweather still seemed to grasp only simple things. Guns, guitars and hot-rods were good; snakes, schoolbooks and recurrent headaches were bad; the right trim to his long copper hair and the proper cant to his cigarette made him look like James Dean. Beyond these, Chuck Starkweather accepted just two constants: 1) the world was against him, 2) when somebody's against you, fight back. This he learned in home town Lincoln, Neb. at Saratoga Elementary School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect...
This week the crew-cut Coloradan and most other great skiers are training together on the slopes of Bad Gastein for the world championships. Tanned and trim, they are a friendly lot, bound together by the pleasures and perils of their craft. But when the competition starts, Bud Werner is ready to battle his buddies, is even willing to flout the maxim-especially fitted to skiing-that pride goeth before a fall. "If I say so-and I see no reason why I shouldn't-I expect to get some of the medals," he says. "In fact, I shall...
...Sydney, Australia, trim Wilma Kennedy, 23, was fined $67 after she grabbed a husky police sergeant by the arm, flipped him to the ground, dislocated his shoulder, put him off duty for seven weeks...
SOVIET ECONOMIC offensive may cause U.S. to trim interest rates on foreign loans drawn from new $300 million Development Loan Fund (TIME, Sept. 30). Administration is considering reduction of its 3%-to-4% charges to match Reds' rates...
Cashing in on booming small-car sales of its 108-in. -wheelbase Ramblers, American Motors has made an even smaller, 100-in.-wheelbase 1958 Rambler American. Aside from a redesigned grille and trim, the car is a reissue of the first economical (up to 35 miles per gallon) five-passenger, two-door Rambler sedan introduced in 1951, dropped by 1956. Plain and simple, the 90-h.p. American even comes with a do-it-yourself instruction book to cut repair bills. American Motors' President George Romney says it will compete directly with the $1,795 Studebaker-Packard Scotsman and foreign...