Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest heavyweight champion since he had fought them both. Said Sharkey: "Jack Dempsey. If you put him and Joe Louis in a telephone booth to settle it, the guy who'd come out would be Dempsey." The Manassa Mauler is 27 Ibs. over his 188-lb. fighting weight these days. But he walks with the same alert, catlike grace, and he still looks fit to fight his way out of a telephone booth -or most any place else. As Dempsey celebrated his 70th birthday in his Manhattan restaurant last week, they brought out a cake ablaze with a candle...
...inspect the boat and rose so far out of the water that Mundus swears he could have reached right out and touched the gaping mouth. Mundus hit it with three harpoons in the next five hours before finally bringing the great fish to gaff. Length: 17 ft. 6 in. Weight...
Vicious Circle. This paradox in what Dr. Power calls "the garden variety of mildly diabetic patients" goes part way toward explaining the diabetic's constant hunger: he keeps on eating because insulin tends to stimulate the appetite. This alone would make it hard for him to keep his weight down. But in addition, insulin stimulates the deposition of fat. Physicians insist that adult diabetes can nearly always be controlled by diet alone-if only the patient will stick to the diet. But he rarely does. At Grasslands Hospital in New York's Westchester County, Dr. Charles Weller...
...tolbutamide (Upjohn's Orinase), chlorpropamide (Pfizer's Diabinese) and acetohexamide (Lilly's Dymelor). Drs. Weller and Linder emphasize that these sulfonylureas promote the release of insulin-at least in the early stages of treatment-and thus help to make fat. They recommend sulfonylureas for patients whose weight problems are not critical and for the few who are underweight. For the overweight, they prescribe phenformin (U.S. Vitamin Corp.'s DBI), which, they say, helps both to control appetite and to speed the metabolism of blood sugar...
...Weight Limit. To eliminate one of the most complained-about airline practices, American Airlines and United recently filed plans with the Civil Aeronautics Board to scrap the 40-lb. baggage weight limit (the big new jets make the limit practically academic) and substitute a piece limit regardless of weight; last week TWA joined the trend by asking the CAB to approve its own more liberal system. In addition to the rapid growth of in-flight entertainment and the prevalence of "gourmet" meals on longer flights, the lines are going out of their way to make the cabin more like home...