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Since most users agree that the stuff is vile-tasting ("It's glubby," said a Dallas dieter, "absolutely nauseating"), many mix it with gin, rum or bourbon. Some freeze it and eat it like sherbet. A Washington lovelorn columnist advised the wife of an alcoholic to spike her husband's gin with Metrecal. One happy user of a similar supplement is Dallas' Specialty Store (Nieman-Marcus) Tycoon Stanley Marcus. "I've lost 15 pounds," says he, "several times." Marcus' specialty is "a kind of Spanish gazpacho soup." He mixes the dieting powder with cucumbers, tomato...

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

Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has long regarded Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as a man who may not have West Germany's true interests at heart. But last week Host Adenauer greeted a visiting Macmillan with a smiling "My dear friend," soon was toasting the Queen over venison, sherbet and fine wines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: The New Flirtation | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...conspicuous mark of distinction in Karachi streets, are now hidden away in garages, and one businessman even painted his fire-engine-red station wagon a dull grey, happy to have it no longer "an eye-catcher." A strolling policeman no longer accepts the gratuitous glass of iced sherbet from the street vendor, under pain of prosecution for them both if he does. Office "peons" no longer demand "tea money" for leading callers to officials. Karachi's once-flourishing café society stays home, has abandoned the nightclubs to foreigners. As one businessman, who has made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Purification Process | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Class members and friends whipped through 1400 lobsters, each of which weighed in at 1 1/2 pounds. The head caterer, now in his fifteenth year serving hungry alumni at Essex, watched '34 eat up 250 pounds of chicken salad, 300 quarts of sherbet, and 125 gallons of coffee. His firm also fed 500 younger children of the Class at their own picnic at Manchester Beach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '34 Lives It Up at Essex | 6/10/1959 | See Source »

...tray of fresh beef liver slid into place at the Lowell House dining hall at one o'clock this afternoon. The Committee to Visit Harvard College ate fresh liver and had their sherbet...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: Visiting Committee Studies Beef Liver and Dormitories | 2/4/1956 | See Source »

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