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DIED. Mary Pillsbury Lord, 73, former U.S. representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission and delegate to the General Assembly; of cancer; in Manhattan. The granddaughter of the founder of the Pillsbury flour company, Lord served as a volunteer in numerous health and welfare organizations. In 1945 during one of her many tours of Europe for the WAC, Lord struck up a friendship with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and in 1952 became co-chairman of the National Citizens Committee for Eisenhower-Nixon and campaigned tirelessly for the Republican ticket. In 1953 when Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her post on the Human...
...almost everyone knows, iron is routinely added to "enriched" flour and bread because the element, needed to make hemoglobin, is stripped out in the grain-milling process. But disturbing news from Sweden suggests that too much iron may trigger a serious and often fatal hereditary illness. It is an iron storage disorder called hemochromatosis, and it causes its victims, mostly male, to absorb too much iron. Possible results: liver disease, diabetes, impotence, sterility, heart failure, even sudden death...
Still, their findings may deal the final blow to a proposal, heatedly debated since 1970, to triple the present amount of iron added to U.S. flour and breads. Americans now receive about 25% of their dietary iron from such products. The proposal has been endorsed by nutrition experts as a preventive against iron deficiency, especially in women. But hematologists, led by William Crosby of the La Jolla, Calif., Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, have steadily argued that on the basis of available information, an increase in iron is neither needed, effective nor safe...
...another age. In accordance with longstanding though sadly eroding British tradition, the gang did not use firearms. Their basic field weapon was the cosh or blackjack. For other occasions the arsenal included ax handles, umbrellas reinforced with iron rods, and a gadget that would spray a blinding cloud of flour and pepper from compressed air cylinders...
...Indian people are afraid to do anything that would jeopardize their federal funds. And they have a right to be afraid--that bleached, determined white flour is their daily bread," Durham said...