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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months. "Many of us were convinced," said one primly, "that Monsignor Musante was a sick man. Recently he didn't seem him self at all. Perhaps he was the victim of some form of sexual delirium." The most notable change in Musante: he re cently went on a diet, lost as much as 60 lbs. from his portly frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican: Defector in the Household | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Four years ago, she hit the American scene in her size 50 muumuu, resembling a Hudson Hornet draped in one of Omar's tents. But look what's happened to Mama Cass Elliott. After almost two years of dieting, she has shed better than 120 Ibs., down from 290 to a mere 164. It was expensive, though-"about $2,000 a pound," said Cass, explaining that her regimen (four days of complete fasting per week) finally put her in the hospital and forced her to cancel $250,000 worth of bookings. "The Mama Cass diet can give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 14, 1969 | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...technical staff, which was composed of experts on African problems, found that the Biafran's good supply will decline sharply in two months. "Their diet has always been dangerously low on proteins, but in April the calorie level itself will drop very sharply," Mayer said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mayer Returns Safe From Biafra, Reports Two Million Face Death | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...study, for example, points out that despite statistics showing dramatic progress in medical care over the past decade, the amount of time the average American can expect, to spend in a sickbed or an institution has remained static. Illnesses stemming mainly from cigarettes, alcohol and a rich diet have undercut the advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Social Policy: A Measure of Quality | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...blended the theology of a militant 13th century Buddhist monk named Nichiren with a philosophy of this-worldly benefit that stressed personal success. The sect now claims a membership of at least 16 million in Japan, and its Clean Government Party is the third largest political group within the Diet. In the U.S., Soka Gakkai at first concentrated on winning converts among Japanese-Americans or G.I.s who had married Japanese girls. About 1967, because the movement had virtually exhausted the available Japanese in the country, its focus shifted to whites and Negroes who had no previous Oriental affiliations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sects: The Power of Positive Chanting | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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