Word: trims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to get back 100%." After enviously eying the handball court, solarium and showers over at Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department, Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg, 53, set up an exercise room, for his own laborers. Trim and flat-bellied. Goldberg nevertheless planned to spend a lot of time there. "When your frustrations begin to get the best of you," said the man-in-the-middle of arguments ranging from sopranos to flight engineers, "working over the punching bag is great medicine...
Legacy from Adolf. A trip in a Rodriquez hydrofoil is like water-skiing in a bus. Projecting down from the ferry's trim speedboat hull are legs with winglike metal skis on the end. As the ship picks up speed, the hull rises out of the water and skims along on its skis. Because it has only the drag of the skis, a Rodriquez hydrofoil needs only half the power of a conventional boat to achieve the same speed. More important, its top speed is three times that of the average conventional ferryboat-which means that it can move...
...average-length coffins. The Socialist-Communist city planners thought they solved the problem neatly, but when some coffins had to be shaved at both ends because their occupants were too long for their resting place, Christian Democrats angrily accused the Marxists of tampering with the dead "just as you trim the budget...
...When trim John G. Paimer, 50, chairman of Australia's Ready Mixed Concrete, Ltd., decided to issue 750,000 new shares of stock in his company's British subsidiary, he and his colleagues were a bit worried by the shaky state of the London stock market. To their astonishment, British investors rushed in to oversubscribe the issue 60 times, thereby forcing a drawing to see who would actually get the coveted shares. The reason for all the enthusiasm: since Palmer, a New Zealand-born corporation lawyer, joined Ready Mixed as a director in 1945, the company has expanded...
...might call it," says Sir Frank Packer, head of the three-man syndicate that built Gretel. Though U.S. yachtsmen have reservations about Gretel's design-some thought her "long-ended," said her fore-and-aft overhang might make her hobbyhorse in a brisk breeze-they conceded that the trim Australian boat might well be the toughest challenger...