Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eastern comic-opera setting is strong. To many, Sihanouk appears so eccentric that, as one Western diplomat puts it, "everyone wants to be his psychiatrist." Various theories have been developed to account for his moods, including the fact that every so often he goes on a crash diet; U.S. Foreign Service dispatches to Washington frequently start: "This being the diet season, it is useless ..." A man full of energy and diffuse talents, Sihanouk has been known at various times as a playboy, saxophonist, composer, lyricist, painter, sportsman, linguist, scenarist, cinematographer, Asian method actor and rice-bowl philosopher...
...assistant professor, with a Harvard Ph.D. in history and education. More important, he became director of the education school's main claim to fame, the Master of Arts in Teaching program, which turns able college graduates into high school teachers by feeding them a balanced diet of liberal arts and practice teaching...
...runner-up Prudential. The Metropolitan's insurance in force ($106.5 billion) covers 44.5 million people. One life-insurance policyholder (for $500,000) is Fitzhugh, 54, who by his own tables enjoys a life expectancy of 74.7 years. Not figured in, however, is the fact that Fitzhugh does not diet, shuns exercise and is "all thumbs" around his Sutton Place apartment in Manhattan. Still, since graduating from Princeton ('30) he has rarely missed a day's work, progressed steadily through the ranks until last year he took over as chief executive from retiring Chairman Frederic Ecker, who died...
Nearly 1,000,000 people were on a starvation diet in Java; scores have already died of malnutrition. Peasant villages emptied as food supplies dwindled, and native families poured into already overcrowded cities. In Surabaya, Indonesia's third largest city, 75,000 beggars roamed the streets; half-naked children, five and six years old, begged for parents too weak to walk the pavements themselves...
...office. He still celebrates noon Mass frequently at the Gothic church of Notre Dame near the town hall, manages to show up for, and partake in, nearly every banquet in town. He freely attributes his vitality to Burgundy's caloric cuisine. "I don't follow any diet, have no liver trouble, and don't touch mineral water," he says. "I just eat a little of everything, and wash it down with red and white Burgundies...