Word: trimming
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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...
...seasonal zeal for gift giving is not confined to the U.S. Taking their cue from the U.S., stores and streets all over Western Europe are decked out in Christmas trim to lure affluent buyers. In officially atheistic Russia, where the authorities frown upon the "bourgeois" tradition of Christmas, citizens still crowd into department stores and exchange gifts around the "New Year's trees" while children babble about "Grandfather Frost." In Hindu India, gifts and greetings are exchanged, and on Christmas Day the shops close and liquor prohibitions are relaxed. In Islamic Morocco, seven-year-old Princess Amina, daughter...
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...
...Australians dispatched helicopters. The U.S. Seventh Fleet, after President Kennedy telegraphed sympathy and offers of assistance to Governor Rockefeller, volunteered a carrier and planes. Rockefeller and his daughter soon left the actual search to experienced eyes, and they followed progress of the hunt from the district commissioner's trim white house at Merauke...