Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reminders that his party had given booming Japan one of the world's highest rates of economic growth (an annual 9% increase in gross national product), Ikeda came through handsomely: his Liberal-Democrats won 296 out of the 467 seats in the lower house of Japan's Diet, an increase of 13 seats and the largest number won by a single Japanese party since World...
Paradoxically, Ikeda's left-wing Socialist foes also gained, increasing their Diet seats from 122 to 145. But all 23 of their new seats were taken from the middle-roading Democratic Socialists, who until they broke away a year ago had belonged to the Socialist Party anyway. Big losers were Japan's minor parties-though the Communists, who had a 1949 peak of 35 seats, increased their representation in the Diet from one to three members...
...your review of The Alamo: after a fairly steady diet of doom, declining prestige and farm income, dull candidates, duller debates, and disunited nations, may I offer my heartfelt thanks for the first genuine laugh in months...
...Tokyo's bemused U.S. residents it was hard to believe that they were living in the same city that only six months ago had turned out thousands of screaming demonstrators against "U.S. imperialism." As more than 56 million Japanese voters prepared to go to elect a new Diet this week, the most idolized politician in the country was a 43-year-old American-President-elect John F. Kennedy...
...from Saudi Arabian royalty and the King of Greece. The well-heeled businessmen who dine at Denver's Twenty-Six Club drink it; so do the spring-training players of the Birmingham Barons. Food Editor Marjorie Barrett of Denver's Rocky Mountain News wrote about her Metrecal diet, soon became the spiritual leader of a kind of Fatsos Anonymous, whose backsliding members gained great encouragement by calling her on the phone and discussing their terrifying moments of weakness...