Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genetic defect, such children lack an enzyme essential to the metabolism of phenylalanine, a constituent of most protein foods. Within a few weeks after birth, phenylpyruvic acid inflicts permanent damage on the brain. But now the defect can be promptly detected, and children started early on a special diet escape nearly all the brain damage...
...81st birthday, at first reported that the Pope had a case of influenza. But the real trouble, it said later, was a gastric illness that had provoked a "rather intense anemia." There was speculation, although no confirmation, that he had an ulcer. Put to bed and on a strict diet, he seemed cheerier after a few days...
Most tie-ins are subtler, but not much. Planters Peanuts and Royal Crown Cola constitute Jerry Lewis' diet in The Nutty Professor. Rewarding him roughly at the rate of a dollar a calorie, the two companies have paid $250,000 to plug the movie, including blurbs on 40 million peanut sacks and millions of six-packs of cola. The Ideal Toy Corp. has pledged $3,000,000 in promotion to have its products shown in a forthcoming Lewis film. Debbie Reynolds' dog will soon go dough-eyed over Red Heart Dog Food in My Six Loves...
...other hand, the Algerians are a shrewd, pragmatic people whose friendship for the West has survived the bitterness of war. Most Moslems seem to be aware that U.S. surplus food, though little publicized, is supplying three-quarters of the daily diet for 3,000,000 Algerians. As in other new African countries, the people are also discovering that Communist-bloc aid is mostly window dressing; since Khrushchev's hasty retreat from Cuba, they have become even more leary of Soviet attempts to make Ben Bella the Castro of Africa. Whatever the subject under discussion, Algerians often ask: "What...
...strings. Sato, who controls 100 Diet members of the governing Liberal-Democratic Party, pledged their votes to Ikeda. Kishi did the same with his faction. Though Ikeda, 62, would like to stick around to carry through his ambitious plan to double Japan's national income by 1970, there is now rising pressure for him to step aside as early as next spring, and he may feel obliged to repay his debt to Sato...