Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friday. The President's appetite continued to be good, and at breakfast he asked for, and got, a strip of his favorite beef bacon. But his doctors restricted him to a rigid 1,600-calorie-a-day diet to keep his weight down. During the day two hospital orderlies lifted Ike to a new hospital bed that can be raised and lowered from the floor by an electric motor. The apparatus will make it easier for the President to get in and out of bed when he is allowed to walk. Lieut. Knox read to him from Sir Arthur...
...Right Diet? Weekday circulation, stimulated in part by contests, has climbed steadily in the past year to an estimated 400,000, up some 60,000 from last October. The Trib's new weekly TV and Radio Magazine is still losing money, but it has helped jack Sunday circulation to 600,000, v. 528,253 a year ago. And the Trib's advertising linage last week was running 10% ahead of last year's level...
...President awoke several times during the night, was restricted to a diet of fruit juices, and remained under the oxygen tent. The tent, Press Secretary Hagerty explained, was normal procedure for cardiac patients...
Japan, too, he told some visiting Japanese Diet members, may have all their prisoners of war (Japanese estimate: 10,000; Russian: 1,047) in exchange for ending the state of war and establishing diplomatic relations. Also, he hinted, the Soviet Union might throw in two tiny islands north of Hokkaido that Russia has held since the end of World War II-but not the Kurils and southern Sakhalin, awarded to Stalin by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Yalta...
...reason company papers put out such a bland diet is that they are too often published by employees on loan from personnel and advertising staffs who have no newspaper experience. Furthermore, they have no contact with top management, have no idea of what goes on in the president's office. Some editors, in turn, often show an ostrich-like attitude to important stories, e.g., one southern industrial editor insisted that a topic like the Guaranteed Annual Wage "did not apply" to his 60,000 C.I.O. readers. During the bitter strike by the Communications Workers of America last spring against...