Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calories Don't Count blared the title, and delighted fatties swallowed every word of Dr. Herman Toller's book. They also gobbled tons of safflower-oil capsules as prescribed by Taller. It was bad enough when the Food & Drug Administration retorted that calories do indeed count and that safflower oil is worthless. But Taller's own fat was really in the fire when it came out that he apparently had a financial interest in a safflower-pill manufacturer endorsed in the book. That, said a Federal indictment filed last week, amounts to mail fraud, conspiracy and violation...
...quality copies in the state dining room are No. 10's own. The effect is tasteful, pleasing and unadventuresome. And perhaps it was the great English art theoretician John Ruskin who gave a clue why No. 10 should never be much altered. He wrote, of any ancient building: "Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown...
Pugnacious Poet-Novelist Elliott comes out swinging against a wide variety of targets, ranging from sex cultists to the high priests of New Criticism. The most devastating of his 15 essays, Who Is We?, concerns the 107 (Elliott's count) grand poohbahs who dominate the U.S. cultural scene from Man hattan's Morningside Heights area. They are the "Diors and Schiaparellis of intellectual fashion design," in Elliott's phrase, and include Eric Bentley, Jacques Barzun, Lionel and Diana Trilling. "What they think today," says he, "you're apt to find yourself, in a Sears, Roebuckish...
...Harvard's graduates now go on to further study. Students interested in courses outside their field take them at the risk of lowering their departmental Honors status. Unless they wish to graduate with a Cum Laude in General Studies, good work in outside courses remains unconsidered. Only departmental grades count toward Cum Laude and Magna Cum Laude degrees...
...that apparently did not bother Bobby, who was already considering yet another career. There was a "distinct possibility" he might some day run for office, he said. If he did, he certainly could count on home-town support. Last week Baker was named a Pickens County delegate to the South Carolina Democratic Convention later this month. Said Baker: "People that know you and respect you and like you, even if you had done something wrong, will still be for you. They know me in Pickens...