Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Losing weight has never really been very much fun. Even the most considerate diet imposes unseemly demands on the will, and running in place can be downright tiring. Surely, fatties have long maintained, there must be easier ways to slim down. Now there are -scads of them. The current easy-exercise-equipment market is doing a $100 million-a-year business in belts and wheels, inflatable suits, stretch straps, electronic and battery-operated devices, all designed to knock off pounds and inches with a minimum of effort on the part of the individual. For those who cannot raise even...
Plastic Pants. The hottest item of the season-and not only hot but sweating-are Trim-Jeans. Variously known as Slim Shorts and Air Shorts, and priced anywhere from $6 to $14, the plastic pants are put on, inflated with the accompanying air pump, and worn for half an hour or so. Like last year's popular Sauna Belt, the shorts work by trapping body heat between vinyl and skin; the heat, it is claimed, "breaks down fatty tissue." Some doctors think, however, that the weight that melts away is actually just water that is lost through perspiration. Shorts...
Navy's win in the finals avenged an eight-tenths second loss to Butgers in the morning qualifications. Even more shocking in the preliminaries was a scare from B. U., which left the Middies a slim half a deck from elimination...
...Please do not disturb." a sign hung carefully on the tent said. However, in the police state imposed here yesterday, the chances for peace and quiet are slim indeed...
...heavily documented new book Marihuana Reconsidered. "This is an uncontrolled study. You can't tell which is cause and which is effect-the drug, the life style, or the psychological problem." He adds a warning against "alarming reports" about the presumed hazards of pot based on "slim data" because, he says, such reports widen the credibility gap between doctors and adolescents...