Word: desks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even though people are eating less than they did in 1900, he said, "desk-sitting types" no longer need so much energy. So food turns to fat, and fat to a prospective heart attack. Mayer compared American men with animals penned up to be fattened for the kill...
When a man is physically overworked to the limits of endurance, says Mayer, he loses appetite, eats less and loses weight. Reason: the hunger center cannot keep up with the body's energy output. Conversely, if a man sits at a desk all day, he may stay hungry. One possible reason: messages to the satiety center do not get through. This phenomenon has long been exploited by farmers who keep animals cooped up to fatten them...
...midnight, Hubert G. Locke, a Negro who is administrative assistant to the police commissioner, left his desk at headquarters and climbed to the roof for a look at Detroit. When he saw it, he wept. Beneath him, whole sections of the nation's fifth largest city lay in charred, smoking ruins. From Grand River Avenue to Gratiot Avenue six miles to the east, tongues of flame licked at the night sky, illuminating the angular skeletons of gutted homes, shops, supermarkets. Looters and arsonists danced in the eerie shadows, stripping a store clean, then setting it to the torch. Mourned...
...week was something special. Half a century had passed since John Edgar Hoover first reported for work at the Justice Department as a $1,200-a-year clerk. Now 72, and the only chief the FBI has ever had, Hoover marked the anniversary in characteristic fashion-working at his desk from 9 a.m. till past 6 p.m., and breaking only for a quiet lunch at the White House with L.B.J. and Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
...museums of art (particularly the Pushkin and the Tretyakov). Americans who drop into GUM, the mammoth department store, must be prepared for elbowing crowds and the Soviet system of shopping: the customer prices the item he wants, then pays for it in advance at the cashier's desk, returns to the display counter with receipt in hand to claim his purchase. Much better bargains are available to Americans at the "dollar shops" (called Beriozka), which accept foreign exchange only, in return offer large discounts on everything from black caviar (81? an ounce) to folk...