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...would bumble into a nuclear war through carelessness or plain pigheadedness. "Can you imagine what would have happened if Goldwater had been in the White House during the Cuban missile crisis?" asked an aide of Michigan Governor George Romney. The aide thereupon touched a lighted cigarette to an inflated balloon...
...women averaged 62% heavier than normal for their height and bone build, and one weighed almost three times what she should have. The men averaged 44% overweight, including one 600-pounder-a fourfold fatty. After a night without food and no breakfast, the volunteers swallowed a stomach tube with balloon attached. Every 15 minutes the doctors asked: "Are you hungry? Does your stomach feel empty? Do you want to eat?" Normal subjects, tested for comparison, felt hungry whenever the pressure in the balloon showed they were having stomach contractions. Not the obese patients. Overweight women rarely admitted that they felt...
...containers, animal feed and jet aircraft. Its International Shoe Co. is the nation's biggest shoemaker, Budweiser the biggest brewer. It is the nation's second largest rail center. It served the first hot dog and the first ice-cream cone, was the site of the first balloon race. The corncob pipe was invented there. The first operation to remove a man's lung was performed there...
...best of times, Parisians did not know it. Girls in lace frills climbed excitedly into the first asth matic automobiles. Bearded, droopy-eyed Edward VII took his cigar and his carnation to the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergere. Donning top hats, venturesome souls climbed nonchalantly into a balloon and blithely sipped champagne, up and up, to shiver in their stiff collars at the dizzy height...
...army has proved itself incapable of suppressing Communist-encouraged rebellions that already engulf three provinces and are spreading even farther. To many, it seemed that his only hope was reconciliation with the dissident elements that rack the land. Adoula apparently agreed, however reluctantly. As a trial balloon, he permitted his secretary-general to call openly for the liberation of long-imprisoned Leftist Antoine Gizenga, and amnesty for Rightist Albert Kalonji, onetime Mulopwe (god-emperor) of south Kasai...