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...last week issued a statement urging people to stick with the more rigorous 1959 guidelines. "The more you weigh, the more heart attack, heart failure and even stroke in some groups," said Dr. William Castelli, medical director of the well-known major study of heart disease under way in Framingham, Mass. "The fact that fatter people are living longer may merely reflect the growing success of medical intervention in weight-related ailments," said Dr. Virgil Brown, chairman of the A.H.A. nutrition committee...
...Democrats. In Massachusetts, which must shed one seat, the Democratic legislature pushed Republican Congresswoman Margaret Heckler and Democratic Congressman Barney Frank into the same district. The new seat contains about 70% of Heckler's old district, and the legislators stoutly refused to tack on the Democratic city of Framingham to bolster Frank's chances. The abrasive Frank evidently made a lot of enemies in the Massachusetts house of representatives, where he served for eight years before winning a seat in Congress...
Graham said she made her decision after the state legislature refused to amend a redistricting petition and include Framingham in the district where U.S. Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) and U.S. Rep. Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.) will square off next fall...
Inclusion of Framingham in the district would have given Frank a "fair shot" at the seat. Graham said. She criticized the Democratic-controlled legislature for deserting a fellow, adding that "if the party can't broaden to include liberals. people like us, then I don't want to belong...
...Says John McCarthy, assistant vice president for office systems at First National Bank of Boston: "There is no device yet on the market that addresses genuine executive functions." A survey of business managers earlier this year by a subsidiary of the Dennison Manufacturing Co., an office products firm in Framingham, Mass., found that many regarded computer-generated planning data as simply too detailed for the sorts of strategic decision making required of executives. Said one insurance executive: "The way computers are applied today is like using the space shuttle for home milk delivery...