Word: council
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month, Food and Drug had a slight change of heart. On the strength of a report by a special committee of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, the FDA took down the "no limit" sign and suggested that adults should keep down their consumption to five grams a day. For those using only the tablets, this should be no problem, since virtually all of them contain only .05 gm. cyclamate. The safety ceiling would therefore be 100 tablets a day. With the soft drinks, the problem is trickier. Their cyclamate content varies, but it ranges...
...course, the farmers resist change. Now they are training their ire on a blunt, strong-minded Dutchman who has urged a sweeping, basic change. He is the Common Market's agricultural chief, Sicco Mansholt, 60, whose proposal to the Common Market's Council of Ministers two weeks ago has made him one of the most controversial men on the Continent. In letters, irate European farmers have damned him as "Bolshevist" and a "mad dog." Mansholt replies coolly: "I have a big wastebasket." Cut the Glut. Mansholt has called for an immediate attack on Europe's agricultural surpluses...
...death of Barbara, he had married a professional singer named Anna Magdalena Wilcken in 1721; she became stepmother to the four surviving children, and was to bear him another 13 herself. Beyond all this, he found himself entangled in drawn-out quarrels with the church rector and the municipal council...
...John McKenzie. "In genuine, complete and unambiguous loyalty to the church," began the statement, which was drafted by Kung and German Jesuit Johannes Neumann, "the undersigned theologians feel compelled to point out publicly that the freedom of theologians in the service of the church, regained by the Second Vatican Council, must not again be jeopardized." The signers added that doctrinal errors today cannot be rooted out by force but only by debate and dialogue. "Any form of Inquisition, however subtle, not only harms the development of sound theology; it also causes irreparable damage to the credibility of the church...
...economists of the Johnson Administration believe that the wage-price spiral eventually can be restrained by permitting unemployment to climb back to a politically acceptable rate of about 4%, and letting it hover there for a while. But, warns Arthur Okun, the outgoing chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "If ever there is going to be a year of bliss for the American economy, it will...