Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freshly returned from a tour of Red China, a group of Japanese Diet members last week reported to Premier Eisaku Sato on the rampages of the Red Guards. Sato listened carefully, then smiled with the weary resignation of a man who has heard it all before. Said Sato: "We have our own Red Guards of a sort operating in the Diet these days...
Humble Search. Sato's troubles began in August, when a member of the Diet's audit committee was arrested for accepting nearly $700,000 from businessmen in return for silence on spurious government contracts. Then the Socialists turned on Transportation Minister Seijuro Arafune, 59, who had not only taken two businessmen with him on a recent government-financed trip to South Korea but also ordered the Japan National Railways to make his home town an express stop. After making his apologies, Arafune resigned...
...target was Eikichi Kambayashi-yama, director-general of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. He was charged with ordering a lavish homecoming parade-replete with sake, flag-waving schoolchildren, and an official army band-when he returned to his prefecture on Kyushu in September. Kam-bayashiyama last week told the Diet's Cabinet committee: "I am sorry; I will humbly search my heart, and I will be more careful, hereafter." Though the opposition shrieked, "Shame on you! Resign! Resign!", the director-general did not quit...
...contained experimental rats and mice. Water pipes, where possible, were made of plastic. The pure mountain air was electrostatically filtered. Visitors were barred because they might carry metalliferous dust; even research-staff members had to take their shoes off before entering the animal rooms. The animals were fed a diet with a meticulously defined metallic content, and their pure drinking water was superpurified. Whether it was hard or soft depended on how the investigators treated...
Only part of the answer, say two of the Adventists' doctors in the A.M.A. Journal, may be found in their tendency to follow a modified vegetarian diet and their strict adherence to a regime of exercise and good hygiene. The major explanation for the Adventists' better health, say Dr. Frank R. Lemon and Dr. Richard T. Walden, is the fact that they do not smoke...