Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miami, Mrs. Mary Louise Patterson, 38, mother of six, was being sentenced in a misdemeanor assault case. She explained that at 315 Ibs. she was too fat to work. The judge put her on probation for three years on condition that she lose 3 Ibs. a week under a supervised diet until she had dropped 65 Ibs. If she falls off the diet, she could go to jail. Mrs. Patterson accepted her sentence happily, saying, "Oh good. Now I'll finally lose weight...
...died of an overdose of heroin in 1966. Few clubs would risk employing him. His lacerating attacks on social convention had evolved into convoluted harangues against the legal system that was successfully muffling him. He stuffed himself with soda and candy bars, a junkie's diet, and became fat. He undertook his own defense in court and, like a character out of Kafka, became lost before the law. His annual income in the late '50s and early '60s averaged $100,000; in 1965 he was legally declared a pauper...
...every 2,343 men, whereas when he served in the Army, he says, the average ratio was one colonel for every 3,000 men. Mansfield's point is that the U.S. military in Europe has grown top-heavy. "It is my conviction," he says, "that trimming away the fat in the form of excess supplies and headquarters will result in a leaner, more mobile and more efficient combat force." Besides, Mansfield has persistently argued "that although the deployment of American troops in Europe shows the flag and acts as a trip wire to Warsaw Pact aggression, this could...
PHOTOGRAPHY is always an important aspect of the yearbook, and Three Thirty Five has a lot of pictures. Most of them demonstrate the adolescent (and elitist) fascination of the Harvard photographer with Middle American and, especially, with fat people and children who carry American flags. There are also shots of people sitting on beds and the aforementioned odes to Nature. There are very few photos, relatively speaking, of scenes around Harvard; many of those that are there do not have people in them (e.g., the section entitled "Pusey the Builder...
...elections by campaign financing is a myth," Winter writes. It ignores the fact that the "outs" depend upon adequate financing to offset, at least in part, the advantages that the Establishment enjoys simply by being the Establishment. Winter further suggests that spending limitations would increase candidate reliance on fat cats. Why assemble a campaign kitty from a variety of sources with a variety of interests, when a small coterie of like-minded contributors can provide all that the law allows...