Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Each year, reports the American Medical Association, ten million Americans spend $900 million on vitamins, tonics and other food supplements. At juice bars in Los Angeles' 35 "health" stores, a new sensation is a pink, high-protein cocktail, concocted of dried eggs, powdered milk and cherry-flavored No-Cal, which sells for 59? per 8-oz. glass. Grocery stores sell dozens of foods that boast of having almost no food value...
...embittered by his failure to capture the chemistry department's sole scholarship, Keys signed on as an oiler aboard the President Wilson, bound for China, and quickly dispensed with nutritional niceties. "The diet was mainly alcohol," he says. "I don't remember eating anything." Back again at Cal, Keys switched to economics, graduated in two years, went to work for Woolworth, quit in boredom after eight months and returned to the university...
...Cal & Nonsense. One of the paradoxes of this era of affluence is that such civilized dining ceremony is not every body's lot. Prosperity and faddism, suggests the A.M.A.'s Dr. Philip White, go hand in hand. "People are able and willing to seek the easy way out. Today they have the money and leisure time to indulge themselves, and they have been conditioned by the dramatic progress of medicine in the past few decades to believe that almost any pill, capsule or tonic is a miracle drug. People are disease conscious, and their fears about disease...
...membership meeting last night, the HYDC elected Minot W. Tripp '61 of Kirkland House and Altadena, Cal., club president; Edwin Martin, Jr. '63 of Kirkland House and Washington, D.C., second vice-president; and Gary Gober '63 of Quincy House and Chattanooga, Team, member-at-large...
...Advocate last Monday named A. Melnick '62, of Quincy House and , its President. Elected head of the literary board, was Richard A. Rand '63, of Eliot House and Barbara, Cal.; Business Manager, Urrutia '63, of Quincy House and , Colombia; Treasurer, John S. '62, of Winthrop House and and Secretary, Michael P. Cain '63, Adams House and Kingston...