Word: countering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Arthur Koestler's new book, The Lotus and the Robot: His main conclusion-that it is useless to look to Asia for mystic enlightenment and spiritual guidance-runs counter to fashionable Western intellectual longings. See RELIGION, Ex-Commissar v. the Yogis...
...longtime preoccupation with the shape of the human figure has reached from Fletcher's mastication diet of the early 1900s to Elmer Wheeler's Fat Boy calorie counter of the '50s, but no diet fad has ever taken the U.S. so overwhelmingly as the craze for the food supplement Metrecal (TIME, Oct. 3) and its sister brands. Across the nation last week, drugstores and supermarkets were clamoring for fresh carload deliveries to accommodate the growing hordes of Schmoo-shaped addicts who were insisting on guzzling their way to the vanishing point. Cried a happy druggist...
Each House--except for the championship teams--will face its Yale counter-part in football and soccer games starting at 2 p.m. on the House and Business School fields. The champions will meet in separate contests...
Dean Bundy had insisted that the survival of Castroist Cuba constituted a "threat to the ideals of Latin American government." It would be difficult, he observed, for the U.S. not to support a Liberal counter-revolution against the "Marxist-oriented" Castro government...
...brochures that explained all about Tom O'Connor. He was handicapped by lack of man-power in what a Boston Globe reporter once said (but did not write) was the worst publicized campaign in Massachusetts. He stated that all the other politicians flooded the news rooms with charges, counter-charges, and press releases. The O'Connor managers caught on, it seems, only in the last days of the campaign...