Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Japan regained independence eleven months ago, 74-year-old Premier Shigeru Yoshida has had to battle his own political supporters as well as his opponents. Last week, in the Diet's lower house, Yoshida drummed his fingers on his desk while members filled up a black-lacquered box with yellow (aye) vote markers-and thereby kicked him out of office. Of the 229 Diet members who voted no confidence in Yoshida, 22 were members of his own Liberal Party; 218 Liberals stuck with their Premier...
...ineligible for any office of public trust. Yoshida assured Hatoyama that he would step down if Hatoyama should ever be eligible to hold office again. When the occupation ended, Hatoyama was free to play politics, but Yoshida hedged. Last fall, when the Liberals won a slim majority in the Diet, Yoshida-who controlled the party machinery-got himself renamed Premier. Hatoyama gave in but did not give up; his followers have been itching for a chance to overthrow Yoshida...
...protein diet for the past 20 months, Canada's Health & Welfare Minister Paul Martin has cut his weight from 201 to 160 Ibs., making him the envy of many a portly colleague. Last week the minister's interest in weight and diet was extended from the particular to the general. The National Health and Welfare Department announced a nationwide survey in which 25,000 Canadians will be weighed and measured to determine new height-weight standards for the whole country...
...natural leaders of the rural communities, such as Dorneirl Romeus, 23, one of the first sharecroppers to lease five acres at Bois Dehors, the valley's pilot irrigation project. Dorneirl netted $211 on his first bumper rice crop; before, he lived all year on a near-starvation diet and ended up with $10 cash. Now farmers who know him are eager for the completion of the Artibonite project, so that they can follow his example. Reclaiming, leveling and watering the entire 80,000 acres will require at least nine years, Haitian agronomists estimate. But by that time, they hope...
...Because they do not get enough protein in their diet between weaning and the age at which they can forage for themselves, countless children in Asia, Africa and South America suffer from kwashiorkor (a West African word meaning red boy), Capetown's Dr. John F. Brock reported in Manhattan. Fed mainly on manioc gruel, they are stunted and their skin and hair lose pigment, making them look reddish or grey. For short-term relief, U.N. agencies are supplying thousands of tons of dried skim milk, rich in protein. But in the long run, said Dr. Brock, these primitive peoples...