Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime preoccupation with the shape of the human figure has reached from Fletcher's mastication diet of the early 1900s to Elmer Wheeler's Fat Boy calorie counter of the '50s, but no diet fad has ever taken the U.S. so overwhelmingly as the craze for the food supplement Metrecal (TIME, Oct. 3) and its sister brands. Across the nation last week, drugstores and supermarkets were clamoring for fresh carload deliveries to accommodate the growing hordes of Schmoo-shaped addicts who were insisting on guzzling their way to the vanishing point. Cried a happy druggist...
...poor whites-who do not know that they are bright. Others are slum and farm kids ignored by crowded colleges because they go to "wrong" schools. (Of the nation's 26,500 high schools, a mere 5,000 produce 82% of all college students.) In a "rich and fat" country, says Harvard Dean Monro, "we just cannot sit cheerfully any more and watch good young minds by the thousands shrivel away...
...finally went Democratic, Kennedy was within a handful of the necessary 269 electoral votes-but that handful was turning out to be a tough one to grab. What was more, predictions of a Kennedy victory assumed that he would win Illinois. But in Illinois, farmers were slicing down the fat lead that he had piled up in Chicago. In pivotal Minnesota, Kennedy's lead was down to a bare 30,000. With these developments obviously in mind, Vice President Nixon refused to make a flat concession when he went off to bed. Kennedy announced through Press Aide Pierre Salinger...
Businessmen with heart trouble should always run to catch their trains, shovel snow, smoke two packs of cigarettes a day and lose their tempers frequently. Fat men should eat heartily to make sure they stay fat. Middle-aged executives should play 72 holes of golf or five sets of tennis singles with a teen-ager every weekend. Above all, every executive should work as if there were 28 hours in each day, and whenever an ailment crops up, avoid doctors and treat it himself...
...months of presidential campaigning, Kennedy has perfected a set of rhetorical devices fully as clever as Nixon's. Most successful is his incessant portrayal of Republicans as a lot of fat, contented fellows sunk deep in club chairs, ignorant of the challenges we face, utterly unconcerned about social ills...