Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, he was the Dwight Eisenhower of the days before his heart attack. His weight stood at 174 Ibs., just 2 Ibs. over his best football weight at West Point. His blood pressure held at a healthy 140/80. He continued to take anticoagulant drugs, held to a low-fat diet, but felt free to wander into the kitchen of his Gettysburg farm to order "nice fresh corn" for lunch. His habits, too, were those of the same old Ike. He arose at 7 or 7:15 each morning, showered, shaved, had a small steak for breakfast...
Next day the President's trip took him to Aberdeen's Dyce Airport, thence to Balmoral Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II was waiting. It was a drizzly day. The fragrance was on the heather. Fat Black Angus cattle grazed on the rolling hills. Trout-filled streams gurgled cheerfully. U.S. reporters rolling out into the Highlands with the President and Prince Philip, who had met him, were surprised that so few Scotsmen wore kilts. But when they got to the gates of royal Balmoral, the Americans got the full treatment-bagpipes howling fiendishly, Royal Highland Fusiliers crashing to attention...
During the mid-1950s, when fat. greedy Dave Beck was president of the Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa was No. 2 man on the surface but already No. 1 in real power. In 1957 he elbowed discredited Dave Beck aside, got himself elected president with a salary of $50,000 a year, plus $15,000 extra from Local 299, plus a bottomless expense fund. Despite his prosperity, Jimmy Hoffa, with his wife Josephine and their son and daughter, has conspicuously continued to live in the lower-middle-class Detroit house that he bought 20 years...
Chicago. Balked in earlier attempts to move into Chicago, Hoffa got a foothold in the late 19403 through an alliance with Paul Dorfman, described by the McClellan committee as "a major figure in the Chicago underworld." Hoffa paid Dorfman off by handing fat Teamster insurance contracts to Dorfman's son. Through Dorfman, the committee charges, Hoffa got on good terms with such top Capone gang chieftains as Joseph Glimco and Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca. Glimco, with a record of 36 arrests, including two on murder charges, became a trustee of a Chicago Teamster local. In 1956, when Ricca...
...years after he was booted off his throne, Egypt's fat, fatuous ex-King Farouk is still his country's most popular whipping boy. Accused of all sorts of high and low crimes, Farouk got word from Cairo last week that he is now up for a new title: "Most dangerous thief of Egyptian antiquities." His accuser: the emergency curator of the Egyptian Museum, carrying out the museum's first inventory in some 30 years, a belated measure instituted after the recent discovery that some 25,000 national treasures, worth a king's ransom, have disappeared...