Word: fat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help the next plan," she says, and thereby help develop a better organized and potentially more successful program. "As neighbors, this is what we ought to do--not wait until there is a crisis, and then decide what we would do about it. When I think of how fat, of how comfortable we are, I think I see the writing on the wall...
Chile's main income source, copper, will greatly help Alessandri's program. Selling for 31½ ? per Ib. on the New York market last week, copper was a fat 6½ ? above last year's low-and each penny's increase in the copper price means an extra $10 million a year for Chile. Moreover, Alessandri, who was elected by a Conservative-Liberal coalition, has congressional support from the Radicals, most important of the oppositionists. Dancing with Princess Alexandra at a British embassy party, Bachelor Alessandri, 62, was a picture of relaxed confidence...
...Fat in the Beam. To build a true, fishlike sub, the Navy scrapped all remaining vestiges of surface-ship design. The first test vehicle was the Albacore, built in 1953-a small (200 ft.) diesel-electric boat with extra-powerful batteries and a fat, well-streamlined hull. The Albacore's purpose was to use battery power extravagantly in short underwater spurts and find out what a true submarine could do. The performance was so good that the next step was obvious: to combine a nuclear engine with an Albacore hull...
Died. Lou Costello (real name: Louis Francis Cristillo), 52, comedian, the fat funny half of Abbott and Costello; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. "Now, on the St. Louis team," Straight Man Bud Abbott would say, "Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third." Costello: "Do you know the fellows' names?" A: "Yes." C: "Well, then, who's playin' first?" A: "Yes." C: "I mean the fellow's name on first base." "Who," said Abbott, and they were off on a routine that became...
...Coronary artery disease, associated with high-fat diets in the West, is also frequent among Indian peasants, who eat little fat...