Word: diets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid all the commotion, the opinion had grown up that the Eisenhower Administration's $72 billion budget was a monstrosity. Actually, said a commentator on the scene, it is more like a woman who, at 1301bs., is ten lbs. overweight. What is needed is a careful, sensible slimming diet-not the amputation...
Weary and footsore, the Negro workers of Johannesburg climbed aboard the buses to ride to their jobs for the first time in twelve weeks. Their boycott had been a muted and melancholy protest against a one penny rise in fare (TIME. Feb. 25). Their inadequate diet made it hard for them to walk the 20 miles a day and also work a full shift; their low incomes left many without proper shoes or raincoats for the long trudge, yet 145,000 Negroes had honored the boycott in a demonstration of unity such as South Africa had never seen before...
...visitors, led by Daisuke Takaoka, conservative member of Japan's Diet, got red-carpet treatment all the way. General Lemnitzer himself flew down with them. Tokyo, genially wined and dined them at the plush Ryukyus Command Officers' Club. Scooting about the island in a fleet of khaki-colored Chevrolets escorted by white-helmeted MPs. the Japanese talked with everyone from the Communist mayor of Naha to farmers whose land had been requisitioned by the U.S. military. What they saw-new towns, new roads, new factories-was in great contrast to the derogatory stories that the jingoistic Japanese press...
...AMERICAN MOVIEMEN REQUIRE PITH HELMETS, SALT TABLETS, QUININE PILLS TO VISIT THE CAO DAI CAPITAL, TAYNINH [to film The Quiet American-TIME, Feb .25]. THE CLIMATE IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO A WASHINGTON SUMMER. PERHAPS THE INHABITANTS WERE MYSTIFIED BY THEIR STRANGE ATTIRE AND ECCENTRIC DIET...
...Doctors are learning to control phenyl-pyruvic oligophrenia, a
brain-crippling disease of infants caused by the body's failure to
assimilate a protein called phenylalanine. University of Minnesota
nutritionists report the case of a one-year-old boy in whom a diet of
enriched and predigested milk protein, plus fruits and vegetables,
arrested the disease.