Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Salt-and-pepper-haired and slim -he has trimmed down by cutting ice cream out of his diet-Fraser should be more of a public personality than Woodcock. "Doug is much more charismatic than Leonard," says a friend of both men. "He's much more flamboyant." He is also a more forceful and engaging speaker, who is likely to follow more effectively in Reuther's path as an apostle of social change. He backed liberal Democrat Mo Udall in the primaries...
...that increased his paper's sales by 18,000, to 78,000, while his rivals' dropped slightly, to 125,000. The fight brought out the worst in both publications. After turning the News front page into a graphic jungle of black boxes and red arrows, Murdoch provided a daily diet of rape and mayhem, tortured tots and killer bees. One classic story: "A divorced epileptic, who told police she was buried alive in a bathtub full of wet cement and later hanged upside down in the nude, left San Antonio for good this weekend. The tiny, half-blind woman, suffering...
...behind certainly speaks volumes, but no more than an ad for No Nonsense panty hose. Or maybe Diet Pepsi and "the shape that girl-watchers watch." Forty-five years ago Welles made two films that set a twenty-year peace for cinematic experiment. Now he's cribbing from underwear commercials...
...having schoolmates bring him his liquid diet in exchange for help with physics and philosophy assignments, the sloth survived an entire semester without leaving his chair, enduring but a single aggravation, when in mid-November an existential dilemma suddenly snapped him out of his lethargy...
...Miki had earned his colleagues' enmity by demanding a full, open investigation of the Lockheed scandal, even though it meant exposing the corruption of leading L.D.P. members. He was also widely blamed for the party's setback in last month's elections for the Diet's 511-seat lower house, in which L.D.P. strength dropped to 249 representatives-a loss of 16 (TIME, Dec. 20). In order to continue governing, the L.D.P. has had to co-opt a dozen conservative representatives who ran as independents in the election with Liberal Democratic backing...