Word: fat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week TIME is swinging at a fat pitch letter-high. As the season starts, there is no question that sport's big story is a front-office operator, who changed baseball into the national pastime and brought the major leagues to the West Coast, See SPORT, Walter in Wonderland...
First off, he decided that the $1.7 billion pork-barrel rivers and harbors bill did not measure up to being reasonable, even though Congress had tried to pretend that it was an important antirecession remedy. Among the 154 projects in the barrelful, 28 costing $350 million looked like fat bacon. Example: one section of the bill laid out $269,000 to be spent on the lower Potomac River near Hull Creek, Va. to build a harbor for 41 small boats and 42 skiffs. Army engineers tagged the job uneconomical; the Virginia state government, by failing to promise matching funds...
Great Ideas of Western Mann (Herbie Mann's Californians; Riverside). Flutist Mann abandons his favorite instrument for one of the least likely of solo instruments-the bass clarinet. The fudge-thick sound has a wistful, funky charm, but often Soloist Mann evokes a fat man in a conga line...
With a whine of turboprop engines, a fat new airliner quickly gathered speed at Hagerstown, Md. one day last week and took off on its maiden flight. The plane was Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp.'s F-27 Friendship, the company's jet-age answer to the problem of replacing the hundreds of aging DC-35 still hauling passengers and cargo on U.S. airways. At $590,000, Fairchild's new aircraft will carry almost twice the load (40 passengers) at half again the speed (more than 280 m.p.h.) twice the distance (1,700 miles), and accomplish the task...
...cynicism, fieriness and apathy, gaiety and shrewdness." Fielding can be rough on Americans, too. He lashes out at "hog-mannered U.S. drugstore-cowboys," warns U.S. matrons with chassis by Hokinson: "Don't take slacks or shorts, unless you have a figure like Gypsy Rose Lee's. On fat or plump women, Europeans hate...