Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a widespread misconception that only "special interests"-the fat cats -would be inhibited by ceilings. What about contributors motivated by a cause? Could a citizen committed to ending the war in Indochina be legally prohibited from using the most effective method available to him in achieving his goal-giving money to an anti-war candidate? No law could plainly differentiate between "special" and ideological interests...
...method: wrapping. The results: a guaranteed loss of two inches the first session, five by the fifth. The naked customer is marked and measured by a white-smocked technician, who then takes rolls of wet linen and firmly wraps her in oversize bandaging from the ankles up, pressing the fat upward. "It really is tight," reported an impressed client last week. "You wonder if gangrene won't set in before they finish." Wrapping stops at the breasts, but encases bulging upper arms...
...blood supply to heart muscles. But other surgeons, still skeptical, concentrated on alternative approaches. Dr. Philip Sawyer of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn developed a method of using pressurized carbon dioxide gas to separate the inner and outer walls of an artery so that the fat adhering to the arterial lining could be more easily removed. Others experimented with widening clogged arteries by inserting gussets made from pieces of the patient's saphenous vein...
...celebrated creation, however, is a dancer, not a dance. Marcia Haydée, 5 ft. 3 in., in her pre-Stuttgart days-at London's Royal Ballet School and later as a disconsolate member of the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet -weighed 138 pounds and was known as "the fat Brazilian." Today, at 100 pounds, she has an angular, spindly body that, in repose, sometimes suggests a Mary Poppins more than a Carmen or a Kate. But in motion she ranks among the world's top ballerinas. She is also, certainly, one of the world's most effective...
...buildings. Most cities collect two or three times as much tax from buildings as from the site value of land. This low taxation of land re wards speculators, who can easily afford to keep property off the market until urban growth forces its price up enough for a fat profit. A costly consequence of this is "suburban sprawl," much of which is caused by subdivision developers moving farther out of town to find cheaper land while bypassing idle acreage closer to the city...