Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of his turn-of-the-century conservatism and his great bulk (247 Ibs), Republican Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II, 46, is devastatingly described as "a fat old young man." Running for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Democrat Oren Long, Dillingham never had a chance against Representative Daniel Inouye, 38, slum child, war hero, first U.S. Congressman of Japanese descent, New Frontiersman ("To be President-Kennedy's rubber stamp is an honor") and by far Hawaii's top vote-getter. If there had been any doubt, it vanished when the Honolulu Advertiser, of which the Dillingham family owns...
...playing the role of the jolly fat man, Ohio Democrat Mike Di Salle helped make himself a political success. But after he was elected Governor in 1958, Di Salle got serious. He wanted to be remembered as the man who had wrought great improvements in his state's highway, education and mental-health programs. Instead, he was criticized for raising taxes by $310 million. Di Salle brooded over his misfortune, then got mad. In so doing he committed political suicide...
...also vowed that he would hunt for evidence of fraud in Rhodes's auditorship until the very day in January when Republicans would finally dispossess him of his office in the squat, ugly capitol building in Columbus. In fact, Mike Di Salle should have remained a jolly fat...
...taxation by permitting manufacturer to deduct from his tax bill those taxes already levied on the materials he buys. Each finished product is effectively taxed only on its final value at rates ranging from 6% to 25%. If every body followed this system, there would be less excuse for fat export subsidies...
...Uzman showed that analysis of fat-like lipid, kerasin, as performed over the previous 40 years, was not enough to explain the peculiar Gaucher cells, sign of the disease. It is also necessary to analyse the deranged metabolism of cell proteins, believed to have an abormal affinity for kerasin. Kerasin is stored in the spleen and causes its enlargement, as well as enlargement of lymph nodes...