Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prove that the concepts and ideals of the American Revolution are still alive." Then, in a peroration more notable for its locker-room emotion than for its accurate understand ing of world opinion, he concluded: "Foreigners think we're fat, dumb and happy over here. They don't think we've got the stuff to make personal sacrifices for our way of life. You must show them. And if you don't, if any one of you does not measure up, you'll be yanked out of the ball game...
...werewolf) over a baptismal font, a fiendish face appears suddenly in the depths of the font and the holy water bubbles to a rolling boil. The scriptwriters have also provided an unwittingly hilarious line. After slaughtering five sheep and draining them of blood, the werewolf, now a fat little boy, is called to lunch by his fond stepmother. "Aw, mother," he pouts, just like any other little boy called in from play, "I'm not hungry...
...URBANITE: a bimonthly aimed at the middle-class Negro. A fat market exploited by only two major magazines, Ebony (circ. 630,000) and Jet (360,000). The Urbanite began as a monthly, has since tapered off to bimonthly with a circulation...
...railroads suffer, too, from memories of the bad and fat old days when many of them arrogantly set their rates according to "what the traffic would bear"-a practice that not only opened the way for trucks to slip in and skim off the cream of the freight, but that also inspired the steady expansion of federal regulation of railroads. Nowadays, a railroad cannot raise or lower its fares, expand or contract its lines, merge or diversify its business without express approval of the slow-rolling Interstate Commerce Commission. Overworked and understaffed, the ICC itself harbors no illusions about...
Died. Dr. Norman Jolliffe, 59, crusading nutritionist who linked the U.S.'s high coronary death rate with its high-fat diet, made the world cholesterol-conscious with scores of monographs, weight-reducing clinics and diet-watching "Anti-Coronary Clubs"; from complications of diabetes; in New York City, where he was named the first Bureau of Nutrition director in 1949, continued to serve until last week although blind and restricted to a wheel chair since...