Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Squibb of Rutgers University and Dr. Moises Behar, a Guatemalan pediatrician. It contains 50% corn meal, 35% high-protein sesame meal, 9% cottonseed meal, 3% Kikuyu grass (for vitamin A) and 3% nonfermenting yeast. The mixture cooks into a tasty porridge or a cake that tastes like the familiar tortilla. Last year Scrimshaw tried it on a test group of Guatemalan children. Said Scrimshaw: "The children had swollen bellies, black skin, open sores, were apathetic, suffered from lack of appetite and were underdeveloped. After three weeks, the swelling and the sores were gone, and the kids were starting...
...judge forgave the immediate past, the Braves worried about the immediate future. A World Series against the World Champion Yankees was certain to be an uphill fight for the Braves. There was always a chance that Aaron's bat (TIME, July 29) might fail to work its familiar miracles. Second Baseman Red Schoendienst, the old pro who had carried them through the stretch (TIME, Sept. 2), could be counted on for a steady series, and most of Manager Fred Haney's other regulars were providentially free of injuries. But the bulk of the Braves' pitching staff...
...appreciated; he is a powerful, vital and ingratiating man. In some concerts he has depended too much on his considerable charm, and simply gone through the motions on his songs. Last night he sang ten ballads and blues with drive and bite, and succeeded completely in keeping his familiar material alive...
...characters are given fairly bright dialogue, and both their words and their action often openly satirize English customs. The whole film is one of Britain's better exercises in comic style, and for Sim himself, in his familiar genre, it is a tour de force...
...Steering Committee accepted a U.S. proposal to put aside Red China's perennial membership bid. The committee rejected a Greek request to debate British "atrocities" in Cyprus, settling for a less controversial listing: "The Cyprus Question." Even Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, with his mechanical repetition of familiar Russian themes, surprised the U.S. delegation by his relatively moderate tone, as Soviet polemics...