Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role of marriage brokers, the practice of nudism, the absorption of Germans expelled from Communist territory, the way Germans are buying up foreign real estate ("Lebensraum with a View"). But few of them have stirred up more reaction or been more widely reprinted than our recent story about fat Germans...
...month into the local economy, hotel rooms in health resorts are booked solidly through summer and fall. In West Germany alone last year, Kurgäste, or cure-guests, cast $375 million on the health-giving waters, a 250% increase since 1955. "The great, the rich and the fat still come," says an official of the West German spa association. "But now that our social structure is more egalitarian, the Kur is for everyone...
...ambitious architect. Peru's economy, left in good shape by the sound policies of ex-Premier Pedro Beltrán, and well tended by the interim military government, was in blooming health. The sol is one of the solidest currencies in Latin America. Foreign reserves stand at a fat $106 million, old industries like copper mining are expanding, and new industries like fish-meal fertilizer are running strong...
...shelf of 60 low-calorie products, including maple syrup (9 calories per teaspoon, v. 50-55 for the real thing), spaghetti sauces (8, v. 20) and chicken à la king (96 per serving, v. 305). Taste, depending on the product, ranges from good to dreadful. Mott thins the fat off its meats, uses only white chicken meat instead of richer dark meat, says all this adds 10% to 12% to its costs. The products retail at a 1% to 200% premium, and sales are swelling to $2,000,000 this year. The company's next project will be small...
Women clutched children to their skirts and men edged for cover, for all knew that Scandalous John was the meatiest waddie ever to ride out of the West-the 1960s West of tail-finned Cadillacs and fat farm subsidies, that is. Unhappily, his neighbors back home in New Mexico considered McCanless as loco as a headless road runner. He has embarked on history's last Long Trail Drive, across macadam highways and through skyscraper-canyoned cities at the head of his herd-which consists of one aged cow with a plastic window in her side...