Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment, then, the Fat Man's problem seems incredibly difficult. If he becomes too closely associated with the U. S. and its moves to agree with the Russians, he will incur the wrath of the C.D.U. right wing and seem dangerously close to the policies of the opposition party. If he moves to cut back social security, he will give the Socialists a legitimate issue for the 1965 campaign. In either case, he would need consummate political skill to manuever around his opponents and toward his policies. He has shown distinct reluctance to taint his hands with such manuevers...
Only the most nervous will object to the U.S.'s trimming the fat off its European forces and withdrawing men who can be replaced by technology. But the argument will continue whether it would be safe also to withdraw many combat troops-perhaps even most, as Ike is suggesting...
...turn sour. Rushing in where housewives fear to tread, Charles de Gaulle in 1961 tried to battle inflation by decreeing a cut in butchers' profit margins, which in many cases amounted to 50%. Again this year, De Gaulle's regime demanded that butchers cut some fat from their prices. Last week, striking back, indignant Parisian butchers closed clown 3,355 of 3,744 butcher shops in greater Paris and cut off beef purchases from La Villette, the vast, archaic meat-wholesaling center on the edge of the city. That strictly limited the capital's supply. Result: chaos...
...Middle Way. It was a great moment for der Dicke (the Fat One). For 14 years, as economics minister, he had struggled alongside crusty old Konrad Adenauer to build a new nation out of war's rubble, and he had succeeded beyond all expectation: today West Germany has the strongest economy in all Europe and can boast a healthy growth of democratic roots. At 66, Ludwig Erhard is also by far the country's most popular politician. Meritably, the Bundestag gave him a whopping majority approval to take over from the retiring Adenauer...
...electricity. Besides, says Mamie Johnson, 79, "I'd rather have spent the money for a game license. I do some fishing, but I'd like to get me a deer this fall, and a bear. I'd sure like to get the juice from a fat bear. Makes a fine oil for salad." Nevertheless, the Johnsons have signed...