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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy looked over the land, overlooked prosperity, and seemed to see a U.S. shrunk even from the Khrushchev vision ("a limping horse"-see FOREIGN NEWS). "Seven million have an income of less than $2,000," he proclaimed to the New York politicos. "There are 15 million on a substandard diet; 17 million are not covered even by the $1 minimum wage. We have more than 3,000,000 unemployed workers with jobless benefits averaging less than $31 a week." In Fresno, Humphrey took up the same theme: "We cannot, in good conscience, enjoy our prosperity when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Poetry & Potshots | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

Japan has always depended on the sea; 80% of the protein in the Japanese diet comes from seafood. Before World War II it was the leading fishing nation. But after the war the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Canada, Red China, Korea and Australia excluded Japanese fishermen from many of their traditional fishing grounds.* Something had to be done to make up for the loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ocean Harvest | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...Personality, stress and diet do not cause the disease, though they may act as triggers for it. Pregnancy and the menopause have little to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood & Pressures | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...Perera, is that in 20,000 scientific articles over the past 60 years, primary hypertension* has been tied to no fewer than 14 different diagnostic criteria or combinations of them. Estimates of its prevalence range from 5% to 25%. Heredity, sex, race, body type, personality, stress, pregnancy, occupation, diet and climate have been listed as all-important-and of little significance in its development. Mortality, among patients followed for ten years, ranges from 12% to 91%. After sifting all this chaff and studying almost 3,000 patients, Dr. Perera said that he has reached these conclusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood & Pressures | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...Kishi's ambitions for the police raised some of the old fears about democracy's hold on Japan, so has the crudity of Socialist tactics in the Diet and on the streets. Since the war the Socialist Party has steadily increased its share of the total vote, from little more than one-tenth to nearly one-third. But Kishi has gained from Socialist rashness. In the 1958 elections, Kishi for the first time limited the Socialist gains to less than 3%, and subsequent wrangling among the leaders resulted in a Socialist split between right-and left-wing factions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Bonus to Be Wisely Spent | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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