Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India. As a schoolboy he was so poor that he swam the Ganges daily with his books strapped to his head because he lacked boat fare. During India's struggle for independence, Shastri spent a total of seven years in jail, once fasted so long that his weight dwindled to 72 Ibs. He entered the Cabinet in 1952 as Minister for Railways and Transport, a decade later became Home Minister and Nehru's "architect of compromise." In the last two general elections, he ran the Congress Party's victorious campaign machinery, good training for high positions. Modestly...
When these results were reported last fall, many obese patients got the idea that total fasting, tough as it sounds, might be the ideal way for them to lose a lot of weight. Far from it, Dr. Drenick's team now reports in the A.M.A. Journal. True enough, the drastic regimen takes off weight; the eight other men in the experiment lost 18 to 63 Ibs. after twelve to 52 days of fasting. And it is remarkably painless. The most astounding thing, say the doctors, is that after the first two to four days, none of the test subjects...
...Pentagon; the five-storied base for the towers and a roomy plaza cover a 16-acre site that will require the abandonment of several existing streets. Yamasaki has switched from concrete, his favorite medium, to steel because of the sheer height of the towers, and instead of having the weight of the structure carried by the frame and the elevator core, the great steel columns of the exterior walls will support it. The stainless-steel outer ribs are only 22 inches apart, with glass between, giving the effect of a glistening steel skin unbroken by horizontal window lines; from within...
After a year of these symptoms, the cop took a transfer to the police garage, where he worked as a mechanic. He got no better and wound up in the Yale-New Haven Medical Center, where he soon improved and began gaining weight-only to have a severe relapse after six months back on the job. What helped the doctors clear up his case was the fact that the cop sometimes took a holiday down on the farm, working a tractor that required him to walk behind it. Helped by tractor-engine exhaust, his vacation "cure" gave him the same...
...exercise-particularly because a fable, if it is classic, sends the imagination soaring far beyond its own spare telling. Thomas Mann got four dense volumes out of exploring the emotional and theocratic implications of a few chapters in the Bible describing Joseph's sojourn in Egypt. With less weight but more easy charm, British Author David Garnett has done the same thing with the story of Noah...