Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Katims contingent dined on roast moose, reindeer, and a mixture of seal oil, caribou fat, berries and sugar known as agutuk, or Eskimo ice cream. Then, at the airport, they were delayed for three hours while their plane's engines were warmed back to life. Concertmaster Henry Siegl took out his violin. While Katims conducted with a swizzle stick, Siegl played an impromptu recital of pop songs, Irish jigs and gypsy music...
...newsletter, Archie, like the anti-hero of the movie Joe, is just another example of how TV and the press distort the image of the working man. In a recent issue, an editorial thunders: "For some reason, the writers of those shows decided the average worker is a dingbat-fat, more than a little dumb, a committed racist and most of all, very comical." One consequence is that "most of the folks who design the policies and programs in high governmental circles, no matter what party is in power, have no idea of what a working person is like...
...Rocky Mountain Osteopathic Hospital behind a sign that said NO SMOKING PLEASE, OXYGEN IN USE. Under treatment for a heart ailment, Dita was well protected against unwanted visitors by tight screening. Western Union called with a telegram that had to be read to her personally. The message: GET YOUR FAT ASS BACK-THERE'S NO ONE TO BUY DRINKS. Dita's laugh rumbled from her diaphragm. "Must be my old drinking buddies from the club," she explained...
Corporate chiefs argue that such penny-pinching eliminates wasteful practices that they never should have allowed in the first place. "People who get fat get coronaries, and the same is true of corporations," says Jim Patterson, public relations director of American Oil Co. His company is restricting, among many other things, the number of executives who attend conventions. The nationwide economy drive also reflects a persistent hard-times psychology among some bosses who have been starved for profits for several years and now will do almost anything to bring earnings up. They want to see more solid evidence...
When it comes to reducing, some people don't fool around. At 333 Ibs., Jazz Trumpeter Al Hirt, 49, decided to cut out fat. He had some 26 Ibs. of it removed by abdominal surgery at the University College of Medicine in Virginia. "I had reached the point where this operation was preventive medicine for me," says Hirt. "I believe it will help me live longer. I hope I'll get to see my grandchildren...