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Never a Malted. "This really is a very simple diet," they assert. "It can be summed up in one sentence: EAT LESS THAN SIXTY GRAMS OF CARBOHYDRATE A DAY. That's all there is to it." (Sixty grams are about two ounces.) At first, say the authors, the dieter will have to consult the tables to avoid ordering lima beans (15 gm. of carbohydrate to an average serving) instead of green beans (a mere 3 gm.). Afterward, they claim, it will be easy to run down the menu and pick poached filet of sole, champagne sauce-"perhaps one gram...
...drinking man's diet also proclaims that protein is not especially fattening. And it goes on to assert that a man can eat almost as much fat as he wants to without worrying about weight, which is untrue and, the authors admit, can be dangerous for people who may be developing heart-artery disease...
...legality of such a set-up, there is a more crucial difficulty. The suggestion would, in effect, transfer control of the paper from one self-interested power center to another. It is naive to suppose that student politicians with power of the purse over the campus newspaper could not assert considerable influence on editorial policy and news coverage...
...Made in Switzerland' no longer means it's made by Swiss." However snide, the comment is correct: 38% of Swiss industrial labor is now foreign, and it soars to 85% in the Swiss construction industry, 90% in the canning factories. Advertisements of rooms for rent often assert "Swiss only"-or, more precisely, "No Mediterraneans...
Radiated Force. There is a feeling that, as Harvard Historian Henry S. Hughes puts it, today's world has "little tolerance of greatness," and that in an era of computers, expert teams and government by consensus, the Churchillian kind of leadership may never again assert itself. But one of Churchill's greatest contemporaries, Konrad Adenauer, 89, does not share that fear. "What makes a statesman great?" he asks. "He needs first of all a clear conception of what is possible. Then he needs a clear conception of what he wants. Finally, a great leader must have the power...