Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sense of Secrecy. There is good geographical reason for the decision. U.S. spaceships are over water as soon as they take off from Cape Kennedy; they must be equipped for emergency water landings anyway. To add parasail equipment would take up valuable weight and space. Russian engineers, on the other hand, launch their spacecraft over broad stretches of land; thus they have concentrated on ground landings. Besides, the Soviet sense of secrecy makes them want to bring down their capsules on Soviet soil, not international waters...
...Though the new rules vary, most lines will do away with weight limits, permit passengers to take two suitcases and one carry-on bag about the size of a briefcase...
Only five years ago, Georgia-born William J. Cobb gave his weight as 802 lbs., billed himself as "Happy Humphrey, the World's Largest Wrestler," and won his matches by sitting on his opponents. Today, after learning to flatten his appetite instead of other wrestlers, Cobb weighs in at a svelte 232 lbs.-a staggering 570-lb. loss that may make an equally weighty contribution to modern dietetics...
...part, Unit Director Dr. Wayne Greenberg concurs: "This isn't something magical. The thing is that Cobb had no access to extra food." Dr. Greenberg found Cobb's weight loss about the same on all three diets. But significantly, with the protein diet, what disappeared was almost all body fat, and Cobb felt least hungry between meals. With the high-fat diet, two-thirds of the loss was fat; the rest was mostly water (one unwanted side effect: an increase of cholesterol and other blood fats). On the carbohydrate diet, only half the loss was fat; the rest...
...indictment charged that the defendants arranged during a series of clandestine meetings in hotel rooms between 1955 and 1961 to subtly rig the thousands of "extra" charges that steel companies make for tailoring sheets to specific size, shape, weight, quality and chemical or metallurgical content. Such extras account for 16% of the $2 billion-a-year carbon-sheet business done by the eight firms...