Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never noted for glamor, the humble potato has lost so much of its popularity with diet-conscious Americans that per capita spud consumption in the U.S. today is little more than half what it was 50 years ago. Nonetheless, at New York's Mercantile Exchange last week some of the most sophisticated speculators in U.S. business were in a lather over the future of the potato and betting millions of dollars on what it will cost by mid-May. Seldom has the U.S. commodity market seen so wide and adamant a split between bulls and bears...
...chief, General Bakhtiyar, does not mean the organization no longer exists. Probably some people in jail should not be there. Elections in Iran are a farce. But this does not mean that the Shah is another Hitler or Stalin with over-leaded concentration camps and a steady diet of executions. Extremist positions, either way, based more on emotions than on realities are distasteful...
...heart condition. Moscow rumors persist that he suffered a stroke in recent months; twice, after absences that were officially attributed to flu, Nikita has himself told friends that he suffered a more serious ailment. He has markedly curtailed his social calendar, is on the wagon and a strict diet, and at diplomatic functions seldom seems compelled these days to act the life and soul of the Party...
Meat supplies are also spotty, and mothers have been advised to stretch the short supplies of milk by diluting infants' bottle formulas with water. Potatoes, once a plentiful staple of the German diet, are hard to find. South of Berlin, each farm family has been told to contribute 5 Ibs. of seed potatoes to plant for next year's crop...
...more than this to account for the undisputed eminence of James Bond as the best-known wearer of a shoulder holster in print. One explanation is Bond's universal expertise. His man-of-the-worldsmanship is so explicit that his fans' fantasies have a rich and varied diet to feed on. His cigarettes, with their three distinctive gold rings (a considerable security risk), are blended for him of a Balkan tobacco mixture by Morlands of Grosvenor Street. For breakfast: "The single egg in the dark blue egg cup with a gold ring round the top was boiled...