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...Pentagon is usually singled out as an overbloated tax eater, but there are many others. The federal highway system, by the time it is finished in the late 1970s, will have consumed $76.3 billion. That is only direct cost; indirect costs include increased air pollution resulting from more driving, as well as the destruction of much housing for the urban poor in Baltimore, Detroit and other cities to make room for new freeways. Meanwhile, mass-transportation systems that could move people more efficiently have been starved for funds. In the Washington, D.C., area, the National
...late 1961 Mrs. Jean Nidetch, then a compulsive eater and an equally nonstop talker, decided to use one of her characteristics to combat the other. She began holding meetings with overweight neighbors, during which they encouraged each other to stick to diets. As the 48-year-old Mrs. Nidetch never tires of relating, that was the start of a new life that has transformed her from a 214-lb. Queens, N.Y., housewife into a trim 142-lb. career woman. It also was the beginning of a multinational business, Weight Watchers International, that is gaining financial weight as rapidly...
...Purple People Eater...
...Purple People Eater...
Though mostly serious, Earth Week was not without its zany moments. Malcolm & Hayes, a New York publishing firm, brought out a book called Nursery Rhymes/For the Times. Sample: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater,/ Had a wife and wouldn't keep her;/ Her departure was most urgent,/ She kept washing with detergent." On a dare, an Ohio college student swam across Ohio's super-polluted Cuyahoga River-but only after donning a rubber wet suit and having himself inoculated against diseases that might be lurking in the brownish waters. "It wasn't the cold so much," he said afterward...