Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fat, frumpy Gert is as disconcertingly direct as the belaying pin with which she flattens obstreperous patrons of her waterfront bar. If one of the seamen who frequent her place takes her sexual fancy, she issues a pointblank invitation to him to follow her upstairs. In recent months she has limited her favors to a virile ship's engineer named Harry, who possesses an unholy thirst and an unquenchable lust. Harry (Edward J. Moore) is as lean as Jack Sprat, and he and Gert (Conchata Ferrell) form the oddly discrepant, frantically energetic alliance of a harbor tug docking...
...park or panting along a highway, joggers are unquestionably helping their hearts. But are they shedding poundage as well? No, say three U.S. Air Force researchers in the A.M.A. Journal: exercise alone can't do it. A runner of medium weight who wishes to shed a pound of fat on a one-shot basis must expend 3,500 calories, which means that he must run for well over an hour...
...Argent is like a theater. I am the author of the play, an actor in it and the director. The words and gestures of every actor are carefully rehearsed. Every employee knows exactly how to walk, stop, bow. There is no obsequiousness. Nor is anyone allowed to take a fat tip from a guest in exchange for a 'good' table. I'd fire anyone who accepted a tip for that. I'm very severe. Three or four times a day I have a conference with the head chef. Altogether, there are 17 cooks in the kitchen...
...nails have been cared for by the same manicurist for 26 years. A teetotaler, he has stayed trim by regular riding on his horse Achilles, the mount on which he has won several national and international competitions. He can also be somewhat overbearing. In Guinea, he told fat officers to lose weight, and if they did not, he ordered them shipped home. He is an odd man indeed to inspire a liberal-leaning revolution, but he is perhaps the only man in Portugal who could have done...
...living. They ran some 200 tests on ex-Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, 52, the diehard loyalist who returned home triumphantly after nearly 30 years in a Philippines jungle, where he had continued fighting World War II. The findings: Onoda is healthier than most of his contemporaries who live off the fat of the land. His body is supple, his muscle tone is good and his animal instincts are honed: his eyes move constantly, he hears clothing brush against skin, and he wakes fully alert at the slightest noise...