Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within a few days of their arrival in Washington as part of an orientation program to learn "survival skills," the students had toured supermarkets, drugstores and department stores and eaten at a fast-food restaurant. Said Institute Director Robert Fox: "They didn't seem terribly wild about the food." The scholars saw a bit of TV. Said Chemical Engineer Hsü Hsien, after seeing his first U.S. commercials: "I enjoy watching them. It is a sign of American culture, isn't it?" The visitors were also introduced to the mysteries of Western pantyhose by Newsweek Correspondent Mary Lord...
...leader of Kampuchea's Communist Party. Under his genocidal rule in the past four years, Cambodia's major cities have been abruptly emptied and, by some estimates, up to a quarter of the country's 8 million people may have been slaughtered. He apparently escaped the fast-moving Vietnamese divisions, which were accompanied by 18,000 dissident Cambodian Communists, and was reported to be leading his army's last division near Siem Reap and the ancient temples of Angkor...
...prices seem cheap to foreigners -first-class double rooms can go for $120 in London, $180 in Paris and $123 in Tokyo-but they are fast catching up. The most spartan single at the Beverly Wilshire has risen from less than $50 three years ago to $70 now, and doubles run as high as $135. The New York Hilton has just lifted its corporate rate for special repeat customers from $56 to $64 plus taxes for a single room; ordinary customers pay as much as $76, up $6 from last year, for a single and $92 for a double...
...Fraser and boardrooms full of other executives, male and female, have in common? Several times a week they pull on sneakers and sweatshirts to spend an hour or so in the company gym, puffing on a jogging track or pumping away on a stationary bicycle. Employer-sponsored exercise is fast becoming an integral part of the workaday world, as businesses recognize that their financial health can depend on the physical health of key employees as well as on the condition of plant and equipment...
They stake out selling space on the sidewalks of the world's most populous and profitable avenues. They do not advertise their wares. A simple litany suffices: "Check it out ... Why pay more? . . . Check it out." Fast-buck operators, masters of the quick hustle and the silver-tongued spiel, they are the street vendors of America, peddlers reincarnated from Dickensian England, catering to impulse buyers of every class and whim...