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Richest of all in polyunsaturates are vegetable oils from corn, cottonseed, safflower, soybeans, and (if not artificially hydrogenated) peanuts and some olives. Virtually all contain fats with different degrees of saturation. What is important, say many heart-disease doctors, is the proportion of polyunsaturated to saturated...
...elegant agora of the new suburbia, the font of everything from Kix to Cheer, and the source of no small amount of corn - including the gag about the housewife whose shopping cart does $40 an hour. The American housewife thinks nothing of spending an average $1,200 a year in the super market. Altogether, U.S. food stores do a $60 billion-a-year business, as much as the steel and auto industries wrapped together...
...with both the prestige and power to cut through the Alianza's bureaucratic underbrush. The total performance left Peru's Ambassador Celso Pastor bedazzled. "This marks the beginning of a new era," he said. Or as one Administration adviser put it: "Latin Americans are learning that corn pone can be as nourishing as crepes suzette...
Died. Franklin Delavergne Jones, 65, Pennsylvania chemist who in 1944 discovered the nation's most widely used herbicide, 2, 4-D; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Experimenting with synthetic plant hormones, Jones found that one killed broad-leaved plants instead of stimulating growth, leaving such narrow-leaved plants as corn unscathed; it soon became the standard ingredient in preparations for controlling poison ivy and dandelion, paved the way for a host of other weed killers...
Caught up in the revolution of 1910, Pedro finally realized that young men like himself were being turned into cannon fodder by a variety of self-proclaimed generals and reformers. He deserted and went home. There he led the life of a poor farmer, struggling to grow corn on a rented field a good two hours' walk from his mud-walled house. He took women where he found them, ran his home with paternalistic authoritarianism. But he commanded enough local respect to become a political figure of sorts, first as a leader of his barrio, later as a town...