Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Acne-humiliating facial pimples-afflicts at least half of all adolescents. Medicine does not know for sure what causes acne, but teen-agers eat lots of sweets, so sweets often get the blame. Last week two Chicago dermatologists exonerated sweets...
...Theodore Cornbleet and Dr. Irma Gigli reported that they divided 52 acne patients into two groups. One group got to eat all the sweets it wanted. The other was restricted to two teaspoonfuls of sugar a day each, in coffee or tea. During the month-long experiment, all 52 got normal treatment with antibiotics. Result: at the end of the period, "the sugar-limited group did no better than...
...Little. The central Mirisch is Harold, 54, a quietly tailored man who wears black-rimmed glasses and cannot contain himself at cocktail parties: he weaves in and out among the stars, offering them half a million here, half a million there, while his brothers Marvin, 43, and Walter, 39, eat fingernail canapes. At home almost every night, Harold watches motion pictures projected through openings in his living-room wall (when not in use, the little windows are covered with reproductions of masterpieces...
Modern jet airliners have a monstrous hunger for real estate. Their take-offs and landings are so fast that they eat up runways two miles long. But Seattle's Boeing Aircraft Co. is getting ready to put the big birds on a skimpy diet. Boeing's latest passenger plane, the three-jet 727, will be fitted with special wing flaps designed to get in and out of smallish airports with ease...
...wisely let his laughs come naturally, and the tone is, in the phrase of the women's magazines, heartwarming. Only hopelessly carnivorous viewers will refuse to take the pledge with Fernandel when, reunited briefly with Marguerite at film's end, he tells her, "I will never eat beef again...