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...first glance, the two bombs appeared to be nothing special. One looked like a blunt-nosed torpedo; the other had the shape of a bulky, overweight blimp. So why, until last week, had the State Department suppressed all pictures of them for 15 secretive years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Little Boy & Fat Man | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...supermarkets were clamoring for fresh carload deliveries to accommodate the growing hordes of Schmoo-shaped addicts who were insisting on guzzling their way to the vanishing point. Cried a happy druggist: "It's the bestselling thing since the Hula Hoop!" Campaigner Jack Kennedy was right, sighed an overweight Republican, when he said that 17 million Americans go to bed hungry every night-"most of them are on Metrecal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: The Theory of Weightlessness | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...Kupcinet and the New York Herald Tribune's Hy Gardner to grill him on the air, Paar answered their questions with the air of a do-it-yourself martyr. At one point he shed tears, telling about his ten-year-old daughter's problem of being overweight and how New York World-Telegram and Sun Columnist Harriet Van Home had called attention to it (when Randy Paar made one of her frequent appearances with papa). "Who the hell is that broad," said Paar, "to talk about my daughter's weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Return of St. Paarnard | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...overweight children studied in one community, 80% became overweight adults-and adult obesity goes with increased liability to heart-and-artery disease. In fact, says Garn, the American child's diet, sometimes characterized as "one big milk shake," is perilously akin to a diet used by medical researchers to create death-dealing obesity in rats. He concludes: "Frappes, fat-meat hamburgers, bacon-and-mayonnaise sandwiches, followed by ice cream, may be good for the farmer, good for the undertaker, and bad for the populace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Perambulator to Grave | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

Primary hypertension, said Dr. Perera, is twice as common in women as in men. The women, but not the men, tend to be overweight. The average age at which it can be detected is about 32. And proven cases of onset beyond age 50 are so rare that Dr. Perera concluded: "You have it or you don't, and if you're past 50 and haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood & Pressures | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

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