Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet, Stillman and Baker...
...negotiators in Paris, think that the time may be at hand to try a bombing pause. Humphrey too, in private Administration deliberations, has been arguing for a pause. He is inclined to take the lull at face value, to accept it as a pacific gesture of sufficient weight to justify a bombing suspension. In public, of course, he cannot break with the Johnson Administration. Yet Humphrey clearly is continuing to edge toward a more conciliatory position, in the process attempting to come out on the left of Richard Nixon...
...Governor's man sion, she bravely, if nervously, faced a battalion of reporters. "I'm not the speechmaker of the family," she said, "I'm the homemaker and mother." But she answered questions, some of them rude, with ingenuous spirit. To explicit queries about her weight (140 Ibs. at 5 ft. 4 in.) and dieting, she allowed: "I try to eat just sliced chicken at lunch, but I get sick of it: sometimes I think I'm going to start cackling myself." She tries to avoid snacks and used to work out at Y.M.C.A. "Swim...
Three years ago, 43 Southern Congressmen helped pass the Voting Rights Act. In presidential politics, the once Solid South no longer has the weight to offset the Democratic Party's liberal elements. When Texan Lyndon Johnson became President, the conservative South found overnight that it still had no ally in the White House on racial and economic issues. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, the latest presidential entry, complained last week that the "socialists and Communists" now control his ancestral party...
Tasteless Opulence. Nixon seems to be giving considerable weight to the kind of argument expressed by one Southern lady on the convention floor. She declared: "This is a protest year. We've got to get that protest." She did not mean Negroes or fractious students. The protesters that concern her are people "who are sick and tired of their money going out of their pockets to keep people sitting in front of TV sets...