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This year, for the first time in the current expansion, the consumer is in creasing purchases of such nondurables as clothing, shoes, jewelry and cosmetics, is spending $175.7 billion on such items. This follows a classic economic pattern. First came heavier spending on automobiles and other durables, along with an increase in money paid out for services. Now the shift toward nondurables is being accompanied by a rise in comfort-making durables or services: air-conditioner sales are up 40% this summer; people are spending more for summer camps and club memberships, pianos and hi-fi sets, and there...
University of Pennsylvania Psychiatrists Dr. Albert Stunkard and Dr. Charles Koch made their experiments on test subjects who were grossly overweight. The women averaged 62% heavier than normal for their height and bone build, and one weighed almost three times what she should have. The men averaged 44% overweight, including one 600-pounder-a fourfold fatty. After a night without food and no breakfast, the volunteers swallowed a stomach tube with balloon attached. Every 15 minutes the doctors asked: "Are you hungry? Does your stomach feel empty? Do you want to eat?" Normal subjects, tested for comparison, felt hungry whenever...
...electric fields or care ful temperature control, produced only minimal results. Then, in India, Zoologist Bhairab Chandra Bhattacharya noticed that the upper portion of a sperm sample tended to breed more bulls; the lower portion gave more cows. Apparently this was because the sperm that produce female offspring are heavier than those that produce males and sank to the bottom of the solution...
Elizabeth wore two gowns, both the same sort of Roman-matron style, one blue and the other white. She changed offstage. This was the first time she had ever faced a theater audience. She looks heavier than she does in movies but not nearly as old as she is. She is 32. She was beautiful, but not as beautiful as she is supposed to be, if you know what I mean. But how could anybody be that beautiful...
...Upon reading the "Cloture Roll Call," and being an absentee Colorado voter, I was amazed to find a Colorado Senator listed in the "uncommitted" column. This triggered a blunt airmail letter from me to him. I imagine that I was not alone and that senatorial mail was heavier than usual following your June 5 issue...