Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burden of the London conference was that while much remains to be done, far more has been accomplished in the last quarter-century than in the previous 2,500 years. Except for specialized and usually local deficiencies in the diet, such as iodine, malnutrition is now known not to be a major cause of malformations. Stress and strain on the mother play a role in some birth defects (they have been blamed for harelip and cleft palate), but just what is far from clear...
...tossed Ikeda a block of 49 votes that had cost a reported $280,000, and Ikeda rolled on to win the party presidency on the second ballot with 302 out of 496 votes. Within minutes a crowd of 30,000 leftists formed to snake-dance in front of the Diet and shout "Down with Ikeda...
...While Yamazaki has been an able governor with a strong popular following, the election took place during the planting season, and the turnout was only 62% of the voters. But at the least, the Aomori election was strong evidence that the frenzied mobs that had snake-danced around the Diet for days on end (another 25,000 turned out on call last week to demonstrate against the pact) were not the expression of some deep country-wide revulsion against Kishi's policy of alliance with...
...them. Japan's conservatives were even treated to the spectacle of a falling-out among the Marxists when Japan's Communist Party denounced the Trotskyite faction of the Zengakuren student federation for provoking the police to "murder" Coed Michiko Kamba during the assault on the Diet building (in fact, Miss Kamba was trampled to death by her own fleeing comrades). Roaring with outrage, 200 Zengakuren members assaulted the Reds' Tokyo headquarters, began a brawl that ended with one Communist in the hospital. Explained Communist Party Secretary Kenji Miyamoto later: "The Trotskyite students of Zengakuren are tools...
...Florio got Patterson to revert to the classic, stable stance, with the left foot in front, the right foot in back. To increase Patterson's ability to take a punch Florio strengthened his neck with special exercises that expanded his collar size from 16½ to 17. A diet of steak, lamb chops and beef stew boosted Patterson's weight by 8 Ibs. to a solid 190. Any sparring partner who knocked Patterson down with a right hand got a bonus of $100; any who staggered him got $50. No one collected...