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Starving Africans throw away gifts of American powdered milk, complaining that it harbors evil spirits. Colombian Indians refuse to drink reconstituted milk and use it instead to paint their huts. On the Navajo reservation, many Indians discard Government-issue powdered milk rather than suffer diarrhea. All have a problem in common. A surprisingly large portion of the world's population cannot digest an important ingredient in milk: lactose...
...surprising" one radical leader who was fired this Spring, said. Upper middle class students from private schools are exposed to a wider variety of experiences, he explained, and tend to discard the dogma of Americanism more easily. Their training has favored objectivity and therefore they are the first to question accepted American values...
...conventional, Middle American is conservative in outlook. His interests are intense but idiosyncratic, and if approached along the line of his self-interest, he may discard his hatred of blacks...
...began tossing grenades and firing pistols. One Israeli was fatally wounded and 11 other people were hurt. At first, German police assumed that the three were after Actor Assaf Dayan, 23, Moshe's son, who was the first passenger to notice the Arabs. Papers the men tried to discard when they were captured, however, showed that they had planned to hijack...
...Malcolm X's thought, his integration of history, religion and mythology, and his profound and necessary sense of history's possibilities as a man-created aid to faith and policy. Browbeaten by the delusions of science and scholarship, white society has lately and perhaps foolishly begun to discard such conceptions. But it takes shortness of memory or lack of imagination or both not to see that W. D. Fard's cyclical vision is hardly more farfetched than the mythology of Marxism, which also explains past horrors, justifies present conflict and assumes that the story will...