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...Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) performs his task with the requisite banality, although there is considerable strength in Paul Winfield's performance as Jim and some smoothly flowing, elegant camera work by Laszlo Kovacs. This current adaptation (turned out under the auspices of the Reader's Digest) represents at least the fourth effort to bring Huckleberry Finn to the screen, and once again Huck has been smothered by the pasty good taste from which he always tried to es cape. There is no reason why a funny, fierce movie could not be made from the book...
Rich in nutrients-protein, minerals, vitamins and calories (150 per 8-oz. glass)-milk is considered one of the most essential foods. But not everyone benefits from drinking it. Surprisingly many people-including perhaps as many as 75% of American blacks-lack the enzyme that enables others to digest one of the most important ingredients of milk: lactose, or milk sugar...
...milk's vitamin content. Two University of Rhode Island researchers have announced a more practical recipe. Dr. Arthur Rand, a professor of food chemistry, and James Hourigan, a graduate assistant, have developed a process for changing lactose into glucose and galactose, two simple sugars that most people can digest. The process could enable millions to drink milk without misery...
...weeks ago, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sent an urgent query to former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, now a Reader's Digest executive in Washington. What was Ford's private assessment of Kissinger? The answer came back: excellent. In almost every important negotiation Kissinger is asked if Nixon will survive, and if not, what will happen to Kissinger in particular and foreign policy in general...
...turn out to be less important than how and where one eats. Outpatients at the Jordan-Levitz diet clinic can have peanut butter sandwiches or lemon meringue pie if they like, but for 20 weeks they must keep a food-intake chart, a sort of eater's digest of the circumstances of each meal or snack...