Word: overweighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steady Dave S?a?lon defeated George Beers, 5-1. in the 190-pound class, and heavyweight Jim Abbott clinched the victory for Harvard by beating massive Bill Hazel, 4-0. Hazel, an imposing figure at 260 pounds, failed to intimidate Abbott. who is overweight...
...going," said Finch, ruefully quoting an aide, "there are not going to be too many more people we can offend." He ticked off a list of the recently alienated: farmers (by the ban on DDT), the overweight (by the ban on cyclamates) and sportsmen (by the impounding of Lake Michigan coho salmon last spring). "The first problem we have," said Finch, "is 40,000 inflammable Santa Clauses. I guess HEW will be known as the department that killed Santa Claus...
With these sentiments, Ben Jonson could hang out his shingle in any American city-as a coiffeur. If the adulteries of art take care of a woman's stockings, shoes, nails, gowns, complexion and overweight, her hair these days is just as skillfully composed to look as if it had been dragged through a thornbush backward. Artfully...
...Governor and J.J. is CBS's instant rerun of Slattery's People, with overtones of My Little Margie. It is heartwarming only for its familiarity: Dan Dailey is not only a struggling public servant, but also a widowed and overweight father who must bridge the chasm between himself and his 23-year-old daughter J.J. (Julie Sommars). The only praiseworthy thing about the show is that CBS, following an enlightened new policy, allowed it-and their other shows -to be seen and reviewed by the press in advance of air time-a practice that NBC and ABC refuse...
...middleaged, overweight free-lance journalist who plays the jew's-harp is hardly the prototype of a revolutionary. But Harvey Matusow, 46, has full credentials for conspiracy. An American Communist in the 1940s who turned FBI informer and spent five years in prison for perjury (after admitting that he had testified falsely against some 250 supposed Reds), Matusow now lives and plots in London. He is the self-appointed president of the International Society for the Abolition of Data Processing Machines, which claims 1,500 members. Like Matusow, they look on the computer as an exploitative monster that...