Word: nostrums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Midway through the third and final set, Bobby Riggs shuffled to the sidelines complaining of cramps in his playing hand. As Rheo Blair, nutrition adviser of the Bobby Riggs Traveling Chauvinist Pig & Nostrum Show, massaged his falling prince's hand, some anonymous TV director captioned the scene-and the entire evening-with commendable brevity. Floating across the screen came the words BOBBY RIGGS 55 YEARS...
...writing without a license. Like EYAWTKAS, his latest effort is an ask-the-answerman approach to sex education and social adjustment. Pound for pound and dollar for dollar, the first book provided a lot more incontestable information. Any Woman Can! makes sense mostly as an overpriced, over-the-counter nostrum marketed to exploit whatever Women's Lib awareness has spread to the nation's largest day-to-day purchasing-power bloc-white, middleclass, heterosexual females...
...Government has unwisely, though presumably with good intentions, assumed control over economic matters best left to work themselves out. Good sense falls victim to expediency, charlatanry and paternalism-which is nothing new, but which should temper enthusiasm for this latest nostrum as time passes...
...charming cove of Santa Lucia. In 1967, at nearby Le Lavandou, local Provençaux brought out their hunting rifles in an effort to liberate the "abusively expropriated" beaches. Sympathizing with the protesters, Film Maker René Clair and Playwright André Roussin founded an association called Mare Nostrum to lobby for freer beaches...
Since 1964, however, the U.S. has increasingly had to share its mare nostrum with a constantly growing Russian fleet. Today the two forces are very nearly equal. The Sixth Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Isaac C. Kidd Jr. (who will shortly move upward to become head of the Naval Material Command and be replaced by Vice Admiral Gerald E. Miller), consists of 45 ships, including three aircraft carriers, along with four submarines, 200 planes and 25,000 men. Under Vice Admiral V.N. Leonenkov, the Soviet force, an arm of the Black Sea fleet, consists of 40 to 60 ships...