Word: regimen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Between 1956 and 1963 overweight Americans spent $16 million to buy 4,000,000 boxes of pink, green and yellow Regimen tablets, convinced by a massive advertising campaign that the tablets could help them lose as much as 28 pounds in 28 days without dieting. Last week, after a 13-week trial in a Brooklyn courtroom, a federal jury found the producer, Manhattan's Drug Research Corp., its president and its advertising agency guilty of conspiring to defraud the public. The judgment against the ad agency-Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton, Inc.-was the first ever made against...
...Regimen & Responsibility
...diet is a derivative of the long-popular, high-protein regimen, and was attributed last year to the medical department of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Air Academy medics deny all knowledge of it on the credible ground that drink is not part of the standard diet of air cadets. But San Francisco's Robert Cameron and his son Todd heard about it "from an Air Force pilot" and whipped up the book, written by five collaborators under the pseudonyms of Gardner Jameson and Elliott Williams...
...stops the campaign caravan to visit a local priest. At four o'clock every day he insists on drinking a large frappe and reading the Herald-Traveler. His whole life seems one long constitutional, and he lives it not as a mundane routine but as a stoic and invigorating regimen...
Part of that regimen is politics, and it is impossible to conceive of the man returning quietly to civilian life, mellowered by defeat. If he loses his adrenalin will force him to try again