Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Single Fund. Erhard's greatest complaint against the present governmental structure is that it is "threatened by all too many attempts to give special interests undue weight." "Special interests," to the federal chancellor, means not only unions, employers, farmers and refugee organizations but also individual cities and states (Lander). To assist in the creation of a harmonious society, he urged the creation of a single "German communal fund," to be financed jointly by tax receipts of state and federal governments equal to 1% of the gross national product...
...time or another, said Dr. Harry Hoffman, chairman of the Mayo Clinic's committee on dietetics, he and his colleagues have been asked to put their seal of approval on just about every weight-reducing regimen ever devised by man. The answer has always been the same. Not only did Mayo never lend its name to the so-called Mayo Clinic Diet, Dr. Hoffman told the Grocery Manufacturers of America, but the clinic is equally scornful of just about every other popularized formula for reducing...
Died. Beth Ann Simon, 24, a New Jersey housewife who nine months ago sought spiritual relief in the austere, so-called longevity-promoting diet prescribed by Japanese Zen Philosopher George Ohsawa (Zen Macrobiotics), thereafter subsisting chiefly on whole-grain cereal; apparently of malnutrition, her weight having dropped from 120 Ibs. to 70 Ibs.; in Clifton...
Strange goings-on indeed for two old enemies. The two Congos have been bitterly divided by ideology, with Leopoldville firmly pro-West and Brazzaville under Chinese Communist influence. They have been feuding ever since the Brazzaville crowd threw their weight behind the Congolese rebels trying to overthrow the Leopoldville government, and the feud grew even more intense when Moise Tshombe, whom African nationalists once despised, took over as Premier in Leopoldville...
...only one of many such works that are currently outclassing the programs they interrupt. Alka-Seltzer, for example, has retired its ubiquitous, jolly salesman Speedy, substituted a diverting view of waistlines-a hula dancer's, a frugger's, a weight lifter's, a pants press-er's-and simply says, "no matter what shape your stomach's in, when it gets out of shape, take Alka-Seltzer." The public is getting the message-Alka-Seltzer sales have risen 16% this year-and so are sponsors...