Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the five boroughs of New York City last week prowled a dozen inspectors of the Department of Markets, their eyes peeled as usual for butchers with a thumb on the scales or too much fat in the hamburger. But they were snooping-perhaps uneasily-for a different kind of quarry: the soothsayers, crystal-gazers, palmists and tea-leaf readers who gull money by the barrelful for telling people what the future will bring, and thereby are liable to prosecution as "disorderly persons." More surprising than the seedy collection of fakers and phonies, love potions and hex-chasers that...
...even with all the outside help, West Berlin is beginning to show some economic strain. The city's latest economic survey reports that new industrial orders from West Germany have dropped 12.8% from last year's fat first half. More disturbing, orders from foreign countries have fallen by almost one-third. There has also been a drop-off in big new firms opening in Berlin, and West German bankers and insurance executives have begun to shy away from lending money to West Berlin industry...
Merger was a polite term for the end of USA* 1 and an attempt by Show to put on a little fat. Show has steadily nibbled at Hartford's fortune since its first issue last September, shelled out $250,000 last January to gobble up Hugh (Playboy) Hefner's ill-conceived and short-lived Show Business Illustrated. USA*1 will cost Hartford next to nothing. USA*1 stockholders will be given an equity in the new corporation. Show's hope is to add a large part of USA* 1's circulation...
...oratory, and Tulsa's Oral Roberts for his emotional faith-healing sessions; Billy James Hargis has made his name with a blatant melding of fundamentalist faith to extreme right-wing politics. Age 37, he stands a shade under six feet, but weighs almost 275 Ibs., in rolls of fat that start at his jowls and balloon into an elephant-sized waistline. Except when he is drumming up donations, Billy James Hargis is deadly serious onstage-but he nonetheless lays the serious cause of anti-Communism open to ridicule...
...first book to fervent advocacy of the cause that, he says, attracted him to his clientele in the first place: the civil liberties of society's pariahs. A cynic might wonder if these pariahs most often find a friend in Attorney Williams when they have publicity value, fat wallets, or both. But in this book, Williams takes the high road...