Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should have no suspicions of Haley. He was neither a black nationalist (he had written for such "white" periodicals as The Reader's Digest and Playboy) nor what Malcolm called a "house Negro" who identified entirely with his white master. The two men developed a warm personal friendship, and the book benefits from the gifts each man brought...
...symptoms diminish, the usual explanation is a quick, glib suggestion that they must be allergic to milk. Not so, report two University of Colorado doctors in the Journal of the A.M.A. The trouble is far more likely to be a shortage of the enzyme that the body uses to digest milk sugar (lactose...
...America, Brigadier General of the Army in World War II and adviser to five Presidents, resents those years of everlasting drudgery and clammy poverty, and the denial of a normal family life. Eugene Lyons, Sarnoff's first cousin and a senior editor of the Reader's Digest, suggests that this deprived childhood sparked the insatiable drive for success which marked Sarnoffs public career. That is undoubtedly true, just as it is true that Sarnoffs success rests on his capacity for perseverance, his almost unique administrative genius and a bullheaded belief in the ever-expanding universe of electronics...
...remains the leader in ad revenue with a 1965 estimate of better than $163 million, a slight gain over the year before. TIME is likely to displace Look for second place with $80 million, a 15% increase over 1964. Look is up 5% with $79.4 million. Reader's Digest follows with $65.8 million, a 14% gain...
...wars, which she covered for publications ranging from the Reader's Digest to LIFE to the National Geographic, Dickey never demanded any special treatment. Men did their best to keep her out of danger, but she always managed to find it. While covering the rebels in Algeria, she learned to subsist on a diet of half a dozen dates a day, to sleep on a rock, to urinate only once a day to prevent dehydration. She could do 50 pushups. "In fatigues and helmet," said an admiring Marine Corps commander in Viet Nam, "you couldn't tell...