Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trimming Fat. Last week President Ongania was acting more like an armor-plated hare than a tortoise. To encourage exports so that the country could pay a $700 million foreign debt, the new President devalued the peso by 16% to about 250 for a U.S. dollar. In a nationwide speech, he advised that "the style today will be to export everything possible and to consume what's left." He even began negotiations with private companies to renew the oil contracts that the previous administration had canceled...
Dealing with labor was another matter. When Ongania reduced the number of holidays and trimmed other fat enjoyed by longshoremen, some 8,000 union members in Buenos Aires went on strike. Ongania sent troops to protect those who wanted to work; soon loading operations were back to normal. Surprisingly, the largest union association, the Confederation General del Trahajo, chose not to defend the dock workers. When the C.G.T.'s new executive committee conferred with Ongania this month, he was in no mood to temporize. "I would like to be popular," he said. "Instead, we have a lot of sacrifices...
Robert Scheer, who looks like a fat cat New York hippie in his three-piece suits and polished Italian boots, won 45 percent of the vote in California's seventh district in the June primary election. Since then, he has been quizzed about how it happened, and urged to run for the U.S. Senate or at least the Berkeley City Council; he has also become an ornament for the New Left...
Scheer claims his district is pretty typical of California and says what they did there can be done anyplace. "We had poor Negroes, bourgeois Negroes, fat cat whites in the hills, and the working class whites in Emoryville and Albany, outside Berkeley...
Survive & Win. Built by Beverly Hills-based Northrop Corp., the plane is that rarest of all U.S. birds: the military jet that succeeds without a fat Pentagon order. So far, some 300 F-5s have been purchased by 15 countries, ranging around the globe from Ethiopia to Canada to South Korea. On the books, Northrop has orders for 800 more, worth a total of $600 million...