Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sebring's establishment, which has doubled in size since he first set up shop in 1959 (last year he grossed about $50,000, expects to do $100,000 this year), is a ten-chair, swinging bedlam, with a hi-fi dishing out a diet of progressive jazz and the recorded works of Frankie and other customers. It has a red and black floor, Indian brass hanging lamps, paneled partitions and-in Sebring's private cell-velvet drapes. A visit begins with a mandatory shampoo (Sebring, like most of the "new wave" of barbers, prefers to work on damp...
...high blood pressure and a heart condition. According to one rumor, he is receiving injections of water and procaine (better known by the trade name Novocain), a dubious treatment devised by a Rumanian woman doctor to retard the aging process. He has limited his partygoing, restricted his diet, cut out hard liquor. Nowadays, says Khrushchev, wagging a finger at First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. 66, "he is the drinker, while I am the talker...
...contract came to $100,000 a year, but in yen it added up to 35.7 million7#151;and that was too rich for Japan's Diet. With regrets and thanks for past services. Japanese parliamentarians canceled Thomas E. Dewey's contract as a legal consultant to JETRO (Japan External Trade Agency). Hired in August 1959, the two-time Republican presidential candidate, who now practices law in New York, helped the Japanese land a $3.8 million contract to supply ship-towing locomotives to the Panama Canal Co., worked hard to counter efforts to restrict imports of cheap transistors...
...tank in the aquarium goes salt water, and into the salt water goes a powder that turns into hundreds of tiny shrimps (a magnifying glass is included). By the time these are eaten up. the instant fish are ready for life in a bigger tank and a grown-up diet. The instant fish kit ($2.98) is produced by Wham0 Mfg. Co.-the entrepreneurs of the Hula Hoop...
...native Derbyshire, creating grandiose gardens, installing great sheets of water, commanding elegant distant views. ".Such a mistake," he told Osbert, "to have friends: they waste one's time." Not wasting his own. Sir George did voluminous research on "The Correct Use of Seaweed as an Article of Diet," worked on a walking stick designed to squirt vitriol at mad dogs, planned an illustrated pamphlet entitled The Twenty-seven Postures of Sir George R. Sitwell. Projects like these ran in the family. A Sitwell kinsman went to the trouble of having his coat of arms carefully inscribed on his food...