Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consumers. Says Roy Johns Jr., a vice president at Levi Straus & Co.: "As the baby-boom kids continue up the age ladder, either we will go with them or somebody else will." Thus Levi's has already sold some 15 million pairs of new, wider jeans "cut to fit a man's build with a little more room in the seat and thigh," as the ads say. The jeans have spawned a whole rack of clothes for the aging male body, ravaged by roast beef and gravity...
...with Andy. The producers of Taxi wrote Clifton into the show, had to negotiate a separate contract, then, when he was late for rehearsal three days running, had to fire him. "Don't tell me," said Andy Kaufman. "Tell Tony." Tony showed up, got canned, threw such a fit that studio guards had to carry...
Nevertheless, the Core forced the Faculty to review individual courses to be offered in the basic curriculum over the next several years. The Standing Committee on the Core has frequently rejected proposed courses, or asked the sponsoring professors to revise their proposals to fit the Core guidelines. Whether or not the courses fit the letter of the guidelines, students may benefit from the meticulous course-by-course review by the Core committee...
DIED. Talcott Parsons, 76, pre-eminent social theorist who through four decades of teaching at Harvard and dozens of scholarly works molded generations of sociologists; of a stroke; in Munich. Influenced by the German thinker Max Weber, Parsons attempted to construct logical categories into which he could fit every kind of social relationship. His theories, which played down conflict and tolerated inequality, were considered conservative and have been criticized as irrelevant. But Parsons took pride in preferring "more nearly pure research" to the trend toward relevance...
...Vladivostok in 1974 on the framework of a new treaty to run until 1985: each side would be allowed 2,400 strategic, or intercontinental-range, weapons, 1,320 of which could have MIRVs. In January 1976, Brezhnev and Henry Kissinger had nearly reached an understanding on how to fit into the Vladivostok framework two new weapons, the Soviet Backfire bomber and the U.S. cruise missile, which had not been defined at Vladivostok. But by then detente, SALT and Kissinger himself had come under attack from presidential candidates in both parties, including Democratic Dark Horse Jimmy Carter...