Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sails are of Terylene (British equivalent of Dacron), and her running rigging is of the same material (with each rope dyed according to a quick-handling color code-blue, green, white, red or yellow). Below decks, even her plumbing is of synthetic Polythene, instead of copper, to save weight...
...human soul." Any resemblance between Miltown and a chrysalis, doctors agreed, was confined to Dali's fancy. Still, the word chrysalis is derived from the Greek for gold, and no matter how untranquilizing Dali's work might be, as an attention-getter it was worth its weight in gold to Miltown...
Born. To Kirk Douglas (real name: Issur Danielovitch), 41, cinemactor (The Vikings, Paths of Glory, Lust for Life), and Anne Buydens Douglas, 35, onetime pressagent: their second son, second child (he has two more sons by a previous marriage); in Los Angeles. Name: Eric Anthony. Weight...
Born. To William Zeckendorf Jr., 28, son and vice president to the thegn of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp real estate firm, and Gurie Lie Zeckendorf, 28, daughter of former U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Lie. Weight...
Born. To Marguerite Higgins, 37, Pulitzer prizewinning correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, and Lieut. General William E. Hall, U.S.A.F., 50, commander of the Continental Air Command: their first son, second child; in Washington, D.C. Name: Lawrence Shawn. Weight...