Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instance, policemen no longer need identify themselves when executing search warrants in certain kinds of cases, such as those involving narcotics, thus reducing the risk that suspects will destroy the evidence. Local authorities have also sought to reform the out-of-date bail system, under which bondsmen grow fat while poor defendants stay in jail, where they cannot build their cases. As a result, 59% of such defendants get convicted, compared with 10% in cases where the accused can afford bail. One hopeful solution to the problem is the four-year-old Manhattan Bail Project, through which indigents are released...
...Saigon. For $675, a well-to-do youth can buy an Interior Ministry "diploma" that certifies him as a government spy, thus exempting him from army service. A trick currently in favor with provincial chiefs is to blow up a provincial bridge, blame the Viet Cong, and win a fat construction contract from Saigon...
Married. Kingsley Amis, 43, Britain's maturing, anti-Establishment novelist (One Fat Englishman), most recently turned student of 007 (The James Bond Dossier), whom he humorously and minutely examines from poison tip to blade-edged toe; and Elizabeth Jane Howard, 42, fellow novelist (The Sea Change); he for the second time, she for the third; in London...
...Japanese stake in Africa is still modest-only $7,000,000 in direct investments-and its sales to Africa of $608 million last year accounted for only 9% of Japan's total exports. Nevertheless, by combining courteous persistence, cut-rate prices, fat markups for local dealers and fast delivery, the Japanese are steadily firming their foothold. Japan's trade with Africa has nearly doubled in the past five years. Only in the former French colonies have the Japanese failed so far to make any real progress, primarily because of import restrictions favoring the French...
Camembert & Wine. Plantlike, but not quite plants, fungi are rootless and leafless, consist of tiny threads (hyphae) tangled in a mass (mycelium) that can grow as much as half a mile in 24 hours. Lacking chlorophyll, fungi cannot make their own food, batten instead on fabric, fur, fat, paint, plants, plastics, skeletons, cold cream, jet fuel and people. One species can survive only on the left hind leg of a water beetle. Most fungi reproduce by the sexual union of two different spores, sometimes drop hundreds 'of millions of spores in three or four days. Most of them...